From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 13:22:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23567 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23532 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA24567; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:22:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Brett Paden cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition at 109%?? In-Reply-To: <3575A0D6.BEE33E82@designstein.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Brett Paden wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 3.0-980426-SNAP and have encountered some weirdness > with the file paritions. df yields > > /dev/sd0s1a 139976 139776 -10998 109% / > /dev/sd0s3e 1774928 879576 753358 54% /home > /dev/sd1s2e 1728076 1208584 381246 76% /http > /dev/sd1s1e 1977182 932052 886956 51% /usr > /dev/sd0s2e 1774928 289048 1343886 18% /var > mfs:26 127006 2718 114128 2% /tmp > procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc > > I can remove and add to the root partion such that capacity ranges > anyhere between 100% and 110%. For exmaple, I can move the generic > kernel to /var/tmp (lowering / to 106% capacity) then put it back again. > > Is this merely as safety precaution, or is this a weird bug I am > witnessing? Safety precaution. The filesystem reserves 10% of the space for a buffer by default. Root can override that limit and use it, but your filesystem performance will suffer, and no one else will be able to write to the filesystem. Make sure something in /tmp or /dev hasn't run away. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message