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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:14:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>
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        "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
Subject: Re: How can I recover crashed system?
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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> This is the second time this happens. I don't understand why FreeBSD
> let's a partition get filled beyond 100%

Because the FS saves out 10% of the disk for performance reasons.  Root
can make use of this space but normal users can't.  you generlly don't
want to fill an FS since it will cause your files to fragment badly.  See
tunefs(8), newfs(8) and friends for some detail.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major