Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:17:22 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem size and free space Message-ID: <gfjmn2$7v7$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <491D5296.3000600@bsd.ee> References: <491D5296.3000600@bsd.ee>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Andrei Kolu wrote: > Hi, > > due to migration from Windows Server 2003 NTFS filesystem to FreeBSD > 7.1Beta2 UFS+softupdates filesystem I encountered strange problem. NTFS > formatted filesystem seen in FreeBSD as read-only and exactly 500GB with > 28GB free space but after format to UFS disk shows up as 484GB and after > copying back files that was on same disk (from ntfs) UFS filesystem > shows that I got -33GB (minus?) of free space. What's wrong? Is UFS so > inefficient filesystem or it is a bug? UFS reserves a small percentage of the space for the superuser (root) utilities and also for performance benefits. "-33 GB" is telling you that you have used 33 GB of this reserved space, which isn't good if the file system is going to be used in a read-write environment. If the file system is going to be used read-only, you can safely ignore this; otherwise try never to use the reserved space. In particular, userland programs running under non-root user accounts will not see this reserved space and will get "out of disk space" errors when they try to add data to files in such a file system. You can lower the size of this reserved space with "tunefs -m" which will allow non-root users to access more space, but this isn't recommended. Either delete files or buy a bigger drive. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJHV5DldnAQVacBcgRAjJtAKDGp7phOEs323fUypN3kvWLTKBh/wCeKS/a fepWhsimX0CQDI4wVcr9E6U= =yoRX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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