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From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: -14% available on /tmp
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:53:52PM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:08:48PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > One of my servers is reporting:
> > 
> > # df | grep tmp
> > /dev/mirror/boot0e    507630    -64328  531348   -14%    /tmp
> > 
> > How weird is that?  I wonder what is going on.
> > The kernel is dated:
> > 
> > 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #68: Mon Oct  2 14:36:13 BST 2006
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL
> 
> Not sure why its -14% rather than the more normal -8%, but I suspect thats
> whats happened.
> 

No, this is a different problem surely.  The device has plenty of space.
it's over empty, not over full.

Joe