From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 18 19:12:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26809 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:12:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrtg.senet.com.au (mrtg.senet.com.au [203.56.239.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26795 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:12:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@senet.com.au) Received: from foo.senet.com.au (IDENT:chris@foo.senet.com.au [203.34.34.35]) by mrtg.senet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA23283; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:41:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:41:14 +0930 (CST) From: Chris Foote To: Pecsenyanszky Istvan cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system full In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Pecsenyanszky Istvan wrote: > today my console filled up with "/home: file system full" messages. > The /home partition is at 98%, near full, but and there is appr. 700MB > free space yet, leastwise df shows so. > > Could anybody enlighten me, why can't use the system the rest 700MB? Some space is reserved for root that normal users are unable to use. Using 'tunefs' with the -m option, you should be able to reduce the space reserved for root on an existing parition. Cheers, Chris Foote SE Net Technical Manager 222 Grote Street SE Network Access Adelaide SA 5000 e-mail chris@senet.com.au Australia phone : (08) 8221 5221 PGP Public Key available from fax: (08) 8221 5220 http://www.senet.com.au/PGP support: (08) 8221 5792 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message