Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:06:54 -0700 From: Casey Scott <casey@phantombsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Elliot Crosby-McCullough <freebsd@xianshi.org> Subject: Re: Root 8% reserved space and tunefs Message-ID: <200507080806.54457.casey@phantombsd.org> In-Reply-To: <42CE8F97.4020307@xianshi.org> References: <42CE8F97.4020307@xianshi.org>
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On Friday 08 July 2005 07:37 am, Elliot Crosby-McCullough wrote: > Evening. > > We are downloading an item to a freebsd 5.3 server which has a size a > little short of the max size of the HD. For technical reasons there is > no way to remove portions of the item before it is finished. > > There is enough space but only if the 8% reserved for root is taken > into account. This is not currently being used as the files are being > aquired as www (via apache). > > I cannot use tunefs to free the 8% as the files are on /usr/ and cannot > be umounted. > > If anyone has any ideas they would be much appreciated; the only things > we haven't tried are slowly shifting the data onto a seperate slice, > shifting the volume bit by bit, trying to have apache run as root > temporarily or replacing the HD with a larger one (the latter being the > least viable). > > Sincerely, > Elliot Crosby-McCullough > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Why can't you just download the item as root then? You could probably do a wget under sudo. Casey
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