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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
