Hello there! My disk is 6.2Gb, midnight commander shows 307Mb free other programs, such as df, smbserver, etc. reports 0 free space But the very thing is, that the disk has REALLY 307 MEG FREE, and files go ok there. How to make the system report normal freespace? (Some of programs, such as Netscape/Win on Workstations, fail to perform things, when seen Samba Server report 0 bytes free). Thanks, George. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, MMTS System Administrator wrote:
My disk is 6.2Gb, midnight commander shows 307Mb free other programs, such as df, smbserver, etc. reports 0 free space
But the very thing is, that the disk has REALLY 307 MEG FREE, and files go ok there.
How to make the system report normal freespace? (Some of programs, such as Netscape/Win on Workstations, fail to perform things, when seen Samba Server report 0 bytes free).
Linux normally reserves a bit of disk space - 300 meg out of 6 gig sounds about right - that can only be used by root. The idea is that if you "run out" of disk space, you can go in as root and clean things up - and still have enough room to work with. Now I note that you are tagged "MMTS System Administrator". This makes me think that perhaps you are routinely logging in as root. Which is a bad idea for many reasons, one of them being that you lose this recovery workspace. Another being that a clumsily typed rm -rf / is a lot less destructive when someone other than root does it... (Although, when done as root, it *will* fix your shortage of disk space... guaranteed...) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
If I remember correctly, it was SuSE 5.3 that cautioned the user that only 50 MB was required for the root partition. My my, how the times and the size of hard drives change. Hope were not headed in the trail of Mickeysoft's bloated code!
Rusty
Linux normally reserves a bit of disk space - 300 meg out of 6 gig sounds about right - that can only be used by root.
The idea is that if you "run out" of disk space, you can go in as root and clean things up - and still have enough room to work with.
Now I note that you are tagged "MMTS System Administrator". This makes me think that perhaps you are routinely logging in as root. Which is a bad idea for many reasons, one of them being that you lose this recovery workspace. Another being that a clumsily typed rm -rf / is a lot less destructive when someone other than root does it... (Although, when done as root, it *will* fix your shortage of disk space... guaranteed...)
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Hello, Warrl! The space is finished on "/dev/sdb1" partition, which is "/storage", but not "/", thus I don`t need linux to reserve something there. Is there another way? Or I should go Linux Kernel sources and patch them myself? P.S. I am logged not as root. Thanks, George. On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Warrl wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, MMTS System Administrator wrote:
My disk is 6.2Gb, midnight commander shows 307Mb free other programs, such as df, smbserver, etc. reports 0 free space
But the very thing is, that the disk has REALLY 307 MEG FREE, and files go ok there.
How to make the system report normal freespace? (Some of programs, such as Netscape/Win on Workstations, fail to perform things, when seen Samba Server report 0 bytes free).
Linux normally reserves a bit of disk space - 300 meg out of 6 gig sounds about right - that can only be used by root.
The idea is that if you "run out" of disk space, you can go in as root and clean things up - and still have enough room to work with.
Now I note that you are tagged "MMTS System Administrator". This makes me think that perhaps you are routinely logging in as root. Which is a bad idea for many reasons, one of them being that you lose this recovery workspace. Another being that a clumsily typed rm -rf / is a lot less destructive when someone other than root does it... (Although, when done as root, it *will* fix your shortage of disk space... guaranteed...)
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