From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 21:58:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044C116A4CE; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:58:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFAF243D48; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:58:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from le@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (le@localhost [127.0.0.1]) iAJLwloC039295; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:58:47 GMT (envelope-from le@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from le@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iAJLwlVW039291; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:58:47 GMT (envelope-from le) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:58:47 GMT From: Lukas Ertl Message-Id: <200411192158.iAJLwlVW039291@freefall.freebsd.org> To: ole.thomsen@itechnology.de, le@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/74109: df -h displays wrong values using FreeBSD 4.10 with Promise ATA RAID Fasttrack TX 2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:58:48 -0000 Synopsis: df -h displays wrong values using FreeBSD 4.10 with Promise ATA RAID Fasttrack TX 2 State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: le State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 19 21:55:34 GMT 2004 State-Changed-Why: That's normal behaviour. The UFS filesystem reserves a certain amount of space called the 'minimum free space treshold'. This free space is used to optimize write performance on the filesystem and to avoid fragmentation. The default value is 8% of the filesystem size. Have a look at the tunefs(8) man page, especially the -m parameter, for how to change this treshold value. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=74109