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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