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[tlug] Re: disc woes



Brett Robson wrote:

> I have a space problem on a ext3 disc. I was downloading 2 large files
> using bit-torrents, (4.4 Gb so you can guess what that is). I tried
> mv'ing one of them but had to kill the mv. Now df tells me I have a 8.8G
> dev, with 8.1G used and 0.2G available. Where is the missing 0.5 Gig?

On ext2/ext3 5% are reserved for root by default.  For you fs this would
amount to ~0.5GB.  You can change this with tune2fs if you want.

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