From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 28 20:56:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA01625 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01619 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id EAA11456; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 04:55:03 +0100 (BST) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Dan Polivy , stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: whoa...somethings wrong.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:34:39 PDT." <7461.836019279@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 04:55:01 +0100 Message-ID: <11454.836020501@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote in message ID <7461.836019279@time.cdrom.com>: > Classic UNIX, actually. Filesystems have a hidden 10% float (well, I I seem to remember David changed the default to 7% sometime (a while ago anyhow). > like a negative amount of space free. When you reach 110%, you'll > REALLY be full. :-) 107% :-) Of course, as Jordan said, this IS tuneable, but I wouldn't recommend touching it unless you know what you are doing. The actual value can be seen/set with tunefs(8). The filesystem has to be unmounted for this to work. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info