[Wylug-help] no free space on non-full disk

[MarkP.Conmympc@scs.leeds.ac.uk]

> Hi all.
> 
> I've got a problem.  
> I've got a partition shown 0 bytes available and 100% used even though
> size - Used = 32MB.
> 
> If I delete files, the Used value goes down, but the Available does not
> go up.  
> 
> Has anyone got any ideas?
> 
> Here's a df -k output
> 
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5               738104    705592         0 100% /
> /dev/hda1                16556      2647     13054  17% /boot               

The system reserves space for root/system use.  A *full* disk is more than
100% full. ;-)

The amount reserved can be tweaked.

Offhand, I can't remember the runes.  Will look.

Mark