[ltp] Disk damage?
Ch. Veith
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:20:02 +0200
@Marius
@Matt
ThanX.
I was not realy wondering too much aboue the fact that root could login.
What made me wonder -i wasn't so clear in the previous mail- was that
from the day I bought the box until yesterday the df-results in sum
made sence in a certain tolerance (-h option etc....)
Why should it have changed this morning???
ThanX, again!
Ch. Veith wrote:
> Hello,
> I got a strange morning today...When I was booting my R40 I was
> wondering why my normal-user could not login to X-server, but root could!
> I thought that it might be a matter of diskspace and called df -h. It
> told me that that 0% were free - so I removed about 1GB to another
> machine. After that I called df again and still got 0% !!!
> After some testing around I removed another 2GB, and got the following:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2 37G 33G 1.7G 96% /
> I'm not too good in maths, but....
>
> So I called fsck.ext3 which told me, that 7.5% of my disk were
> non-contiguous. Are these 7.5% the missing 2GB ???
>
> Thanks for illuming me..
> Chris