From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 9 18:52:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4310A37B408 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9A1qiu09160; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:52:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9A1qc770813; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:52:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200110100152.f9A1qc770813@harmony.village.org> To: Juha Saarinen Subject: Re: df trouble Cc: Vladimir Pianykh , Thomas Gravgaard , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:49:50 +1300." References: Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:52:38 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Juha Saarinen writes: : > Disk usage >100% is not wrong, it mean 5% of disk space reserved for root. : > Users can use only 100% of disk space, but root ~105%. : : That doesn't quite make sense... ;-) Well, the best way to look at this is that the system is lying to normal users about how much disk space there is. That's 100% (hence the lie). Root can use the real truth (call it 100%'). 100%' is about 105% or 106% in the "units" of the "polite lie". Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message