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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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! >
