Disk usage error

[Florian Gerstenberger]

On 01/20/2010 07:49 AM, William John Murray wrote:
> 
>   Hello all,
>          Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk
> partition of 65GB in LVM; df says:
> 
> /dev/dm-0             65570580  60494828   1744888  98% /
> 
> However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in it
> add up to 30Gb or so. As it is my root directory, and there are various
> others it is a little difficult to get the total, so I booted under
> liveUSB and saw exactly the same - 30Gb used, but 98% full.
>    So something is stealing half my disk. If I try to write more it is
> out of space.
>    Any ideas how I get my space back? fsck reports the disk is clean.
>    Thanks,
>          Bill
> 

Hi Bill,

could it be that the "reserved Blocks percent" Option of an ext2/3/4 FS
is the matter for that behaviour?

Find out how it is set by using dumpe2fs /dev/ice

You can set it to zero by using tune2fs -m 0 /dev/ice.

Regards, Florian