Re: Free space question

[Martin Stricker <shugal@gmx.de>]

bren@sio.midco.net wrote:

> df reports over 200MB free space, yet I cannot create a file as it
> reports "touch: file: No space left on device." Here is what df
> reports (I had to remount the queue under /mnt):

I'm not sure about XFS, but with ext2 mke2fs defaults to leaving 5% of
the disk reserved to root. This is absolutely necessary on the /
partition to allow root to log in even when some luser filled the /
filesystem. Maybe something similar is true for XFS?

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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