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On Monday 07 December 2009 08:56:36 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I was trying to understand about Disk Space issue on Linux Box. |
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> whenever the disk usage is 100%. Still i am able to login to the host |
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> using root user. How does it work. was curious to know. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Kaushal |
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You have supplied way too little information to give a definitive answer. So |
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I'll tell you the usual cause: |
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The ext2 filesystem and it's derivatives reserve 5% of disk space exclusively |
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for root's use. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |