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Jimmie James <jimmiejaz@gmail.com> writes:

> I know there's 8% reserved for softupdates, but how is it possible
> that there's _extra_ space on /tmp ?  What am I missing?  This is the
> first time I've seen this.

This is a FAQ. 
In fact, it's listed in the FAQ list.
"How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full?"
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL