space left on ext3 (2.6.6-bk3)

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

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

fast:/mnt/tmp# rm zr

fast:/mnt/tmp# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3               958488    521864    387936  58% /mnt

Is this an expected behaviour?.. Yeah, it is nice to have more space than 
you think you have, but...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski

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