[ltp] Disk damage?

[obi]

Usually some small percentage of the file system is reserved for root,
so that when you accedentally filled the disk, root can still log in.
You can man tune2efs to find out more (-m option I think).

graziano

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:43:31PM +0200, 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
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