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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:10:49 +0000 From: "Daniel K." <dk@...no> To: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> CC: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3: deleting files doesn't free up space Dan Carpenter wrote: > I filled up my partition last night. > I deleted 5 gigs of movies. > The "Used" number went down to 125G. > The "Free" number stayed at 0. > I rebooted the system but it's still the same. > > $ echo foo > foo > bash: echo: write error: No space left on device > > $ df . > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 136236548 130363620 0 100% /media/old_sys Check out the -m option to tune2fs, which sets the reserved-blocks-percentage for the FS - the percentage of blocks reserved to the super user, which is 5% by default. Presumably, root has filled the partition completely, and 5G worth of deleted user data is not enough to get under the 5% limit to allow for new data to be written by users. As this partition is used for /home you might as well turn the feature off, as root should not need to have space reserved in that area of the filesystem. tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda1 should give regular users access to the reserved blocks. Daniel K. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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