From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 28 20:56:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA01601 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.harborcom.net (root@ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01590 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swoosh.dunn.org (swoosh.dunn.org [206.158.7.243]) by ns2.harborcom.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00441; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 23:55:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199606290355.XAA00441@ns2.harborcom.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Bradley Dunn" Organization: Harbor Communications To: Dan Polivy Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 23:50:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: whoa...somethings wrong.. Reply-to: dunn@harborcom.net CC: stable@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.31) Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk man tunefs See the -m option. This describes the fact that a certain percentage of the slice is withheld from writing by users. Only root can write to a fs once it has under the minfree percentage free. The Capacity output of df measures the percentage of the user-writable portion of the fs used. This is also briefly discussed on page 274 of the daemon book. At least that is my understanding of it. On 28 Jun 96 at 23:03, Dan Polivy wrote: > Hmm, maybe it is just me, but does this df output look odd to you? > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 352926 346960 -22270 107% / > /dev/sd0s1f 1206856 604326 505980 54% /usr > /dev/sd0s1e 302222 55362 222682 20% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Umm, if the space free is negative, where is all of the data going? is > it stored in memory or swap space until room is freed for it to go where > it is supposed to? Hmmm... Bradley Dunn Harbor Communications