On Wednesday 13 June 2012, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
If it was 100% full, and if you freed up 42GB, then it would be:
2006/2048 = 98% full (well, 97.95% to be exact).
so it would only show 2% space free max anyway.
And by default 5% is reserved for root, so a drive can be 5% free and still say it's full to a normal user.
Yves