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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 01:16:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To: Scott Donovan <sdd@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: Missing Disk Space (df -k)
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On Thu, 23 May 1996, Scott Donovan wrote:

> 
> 
> /dev/sd2s1    8740426  8054724   -13534   100%    /u3
> 
> Okay.. Where has my missing 700Mbytes gone ?
> 
> Anyone got any ideas.. Or is this just a symptom of a sick file store?
>

	Approximately 10% of a file system is reserved (set aside) for
fragmentation algorithms.  That 10% *is* writable by root, but by
no other, so you can reach a negative value on it.


Marc G. Fournier                                  scrappy@ki.net
Systems Administrator @ ki.net               scrappy@freebsd.org