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From: Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:47:01
Message-Id: 200602151141.21630.mike@gaima.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] File system full issues by Mark Knecht
1 On Wednesday 15 February 2006 11:23, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 >    On this machine the file system reports it's 100% full even after
3 > I've removed 500MB of stuff. What can I do to clean this up?
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5 Remove more.
6
7 I suspect that's an ext{2,3} filesystem, which has, by default, 5% set aside
8 for use only by the superuser. You've gone into that 5%, and 500MB isn't
9 enough to get you out, hence it still appears 100% full.
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12 Mike Williams
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Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>