From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 19:21:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47D516A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:21:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server2.sonservers.com (server2.sonservers.com [69.50.210.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C358943D48 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:21:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsdq@sonservers.com) Received: from 209-181-155-212.omah.qwest.net ([209.181.155.212] helo=IBM-R40) by server2.sonservers.com with smtp (Exim 4.34; FreeBSD) id 1BY8dA-000E1U-VN; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:21:01 -0500 From: Scott To: Jerry McAllister X-Mailer: PocoMail 3.03 (1740) - Licensed Version Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:21:40 -0500 Message-ID: <200469142140.786530@IBM-R40> In-Reply-To: <200406091845.i59Ij8Y12090@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server2.sonservers.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - sonservers.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:21:49 -0000 Hi, As a newbie to FreeBSD, I may be way off base, but it seems very logical to me that the size of your drive or partition would make a difference on at what percentage full one would start to notice problems. In terms of megs/gigs 80% of 120 gigs still has a lot of work space left. 80% of 4 gigs is not much. I would think with a larger drive/partition, one could run at a higher percentage before trouble started. It makes sense to me anyway :) Scott | It is mentioned as a recommendation. It | is not an absolute. Do a little searching | and you will probably find some | references. We have some that run in to | the 90-s most of the time too. It depends | on what you are actually doing. If it is | a fairly stable collection of data that | doesn't get a lot written to it most of | the time, it shouldn't matter. If it is | very volatile - lots of files come and go, | then it could make a bigger difference. | Unless it gets to the 100% mark (except | for root) with that 100% being with the | set-aside already taken out, it shouldn't | cause anything to crash.