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

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 23:13 +0300, peter kostov wrote:
> Login as root -
> O.K., but again could not start any GNOME(?) program as normal user. I
> succeeded to log into Xfce and KDE, but not into GNOME. Deleting some
> files doesn't affect the output of df! Uninstalling some rpms resulted
> in:
> 
> df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                       7.7G  6.7G  621M  92% /
> 
> 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.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>