Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:52:38 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: Vladimir Pianykh <fox@vl7.net>, Thomas Gravgaard <fehaar@infopaq.dk>, "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: df trouble Message-ID: <200110100152.f9A1qc770813@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:49:50 %2B1300." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110100949270.10609-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110100949270.10609-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110100949270.10609-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> Juha Saarinen writes: : > Disk usage >100% is not wrong, it mean 5% of disk space reserved for root. : > Users can use only 100% of disk space, but root ~105%. : : That doesn't quite make sense... ;-) Well, the best way to look at this is that the system is lying to normal users about how much disk space there is. That's 100% (hence the lie). Root can use the real truth (call it 100%'). 100%' is about 105% or 106% in the "units" of the "polite lie". Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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