From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 12:15:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA20233 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 12:15:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpp.minn.net (root@mpp.Minn.Net [204.157.201.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA20228 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 12:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.7.3/8.6.9) id OAA01664; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:15:18 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199602052015.OAA01664@mpp.minn.net> Subject: Re: Decreasing the percentage (10%) of a filesystem owned by root To: jon@technix.org (Basket Case) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:15:18 -0600 (CST) From: "Mike Pritchard" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602051805.NAA17668@technix.org> from "Basket Case" at Feb 5, 96 01:05:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Basket Case wrote: > I notice that 10% of a HD is generally allocated for root to make sure root > has some extra room for files and stuff. How can i decrease this percentage > as 10% on a 9gb drive takes a big toll and I'd like to reduce that. Would > I also have to reformat? Check out the -m option of the tunefs command. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"