[CentOS] Out of disk space at 2 GB?

Joshua Gimer jgimer at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 16:14:39 UTC 2008


By default 5% of the disk is going to be allocated for use by the root  
user. If you are seeing as a non root user that the disk is full, but  
when you become root you are able to write files, then this could be  
your issue. You can change the amount of blocks that are allocated for  
root, but using the -m switch with tune2fs.

Just a thought
Joshua Gimer

On Jan 12, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> On an ext3 filesystem, what would cause the system to claim it is  
>> out of disk space for a program writing information to disk, when  
>> df -h shows ample GB available and the file is being written to  
>> local disk rather than an nfs-mounted filesystem?
>> I believe the hard drive is good.
>> Ideas welcome.
>
> If the application is old it might not have been compiled with large  
> file support.
>
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