AVAILABLE space in inferior to FREE space on hd

[manolomanolo]

Hi to all.

I'm logged as normal user. I can see an high difference between the AVAILABLE and the FREE space on the partitions of my hard drive, as shown in the following screenshot:

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1060/screenshotsystemmonitora.png

Actually I've been able to recover some space removing files I've been trashing as root: so I run

sudo nautilus

and then removed the files in some ".trash" directory. is there any other way to reduce the difference between AVAILABLE and FREE space?

Thanks.

Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala

uname -r
2.6.31-14-generic

[scorp123]

5% are always reserved for super-user "root". Problem solved :)

[manolomanolo]

Subtracting the 5% of 3.1 GB, would leave 2.945 GB of available space root on partition. On the other hand, subtracting the 5% of 1.4 GB would leave 1.330 GB on home partition.
While in my case, respectively 2.6 GB and 858.9 MB (in this last case it's quite the 50%!!!) are left.

So, the problem is not solved.:confused:

[ogcub]

5% of partition size is reserved, not 5% of free space, that way you could always have no free space and no reserved space. You can change reserved percentage using tune2fs, however it's not recommended, especially for system partition

[manolomanolo]

Ah, ok! Now it's clear ;). So everything is ok.

Thank you!