Bug 191434

Summary: Disk space monitor counts root-only blocks as free
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Stephan Sokolow <kde_bugzilla_2>
Component: widget-systemmonitorAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: petri.damsten
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Stephan Sokolow 2009-05-03 08:42:31 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

The disk space plasmoid treats blocks reserved for root as free and twice, because of this, I've ended up with a completely full root partition because it said I had more free space than I really did.

For example, at present, I have 135.2GiB free on my root partition according to the plasmoid and 112G according to `df -h`. The "missing" 23 gigabytes are reserved for root's use in emergencies and as "elbow room" for the fragmentation-avoidance algorithms. (The default mke2fs uses is 5% of the partition)
Comment 1 Petri Damstén 2009-05-11 09:22:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 180952 ***