Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:26:22 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: lore <lore@phile.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Circumventing a full partition? Message-ID: <3739493E.10F6D158@uk.radan.com> References: <37380767.DE01F72@phile.com.au> <19990512095521.D65965@freebie.lemis.com> <373944A1.C218E14B@phile.com.au>
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lore wrote:
>
> Greg wrote:
>
> > > Output of df:
> > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > > /dev/wd1s2a 198399 27897 154631 15% /
> > > /dev/wd1s2h 597719 44324 505578 8% /home
> > > /dev/wd1s2f 694607 666675 -27636 104% /usr
> > > /dev/wd1s2g 694607 49705 589334 8% /usr/local
> > > /dev/wd1s2e 99183 2608 88641 3% /var
> > > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
> >
[snip]
> and I'm not sure how I could have been using 104% of that file
> system, with a negative number of blocks available.
>
Unix systems reserve ~10% of each filesystem for the OS to use for
housekeeping tasks. If you check the figures for your root partition:
(27897 + 154631) / 198399 * 100 = 92.000464%
The highest I've seen is 109% (at which point the machine locked up
and died :-) )
> Anyway, thanks to everyone that assisted.
>
> Cheers
> Loren
>
> PS. I'm amazed at the work that goes into the answers in this mailing
> list.
> A few weeks back, Doug W was obviously putting in a *lot* of time
> answering emails. And I've noticed recently several other people,
> including yourself (Greg L) putting in a lot of replies. I'm making a
> guess
> here, but does the FBSD group have a roster of volunteers that donate
> there time to answer "newbie-type" questions? If it does, I hope to get
> to the stage in a few months, where I have sufficient experience and
> knowledge that I can volunteer some time to the cause.
>
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