strange report of 'df -h' "Size 7.7G Used 7.4G Avail 0 Use% 100", cannot start GNOME session

[peter kostov]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:34 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:32:50PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > As you see 379 MB are missing?! That is what actually confuses me!
> > > What is going on and how to fix it?
> > This is normal. Linux filesystems by default reserve 5% of the space for
> > housekeeping purposes. Your "missing" 379M is the 5%. The root user will
> > be able to use the space if necessary, but regular users cannot.
> 
> Also note that ext2/ext3 rely on having a certain amount of free space to
> play to prevent the filesystem from becoming fragmented and slow. So that 5%
> isn't going to waste.

Now I understand. Thanks!!!
Peter

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