On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:23:25AM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On a ext3 fs:
> 
> fast:/mnt/tmp# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3               958488    521864    387936  58% /mnt
> 
> fast:/mnt/tmp# cat /dev/zero > zr
> cat: write error: No space left on device
> 
> fast:/mnt/tmp# ls -l
> total 436624
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     446660608 Jun 18 00:23 zr
[...]
> Is this an expected behaviour?.. Yeah, it is nice to have more space than 
> you think you have, but...

436192 blocks

958488-521864 = 436624 blocks

I think you have 5% reserved for root, as this is the default setting
when creating ext3 fs'.

LLAP, Martin