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

[peter kostov]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:32 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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.
> -- 
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
O.K., thank you Paul, but I am convinced that df has always reported all
the available space. I mean these 379 MB as available too. Or maybe I am
wrong...
However cleaning up some space fixed the login problem!
>