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Date:      Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:07:44 +1100
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@hecubus.bsdonline.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: df output incosistency 
Message-ID:  <200102070107.MAA08287@lightning.itga.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 06 Feb 2001 18:48:59 -0600.

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> While it is technically free, you won't be able to use it in day-to-day
> operations. It is reserved for the superuser. I believe it is  so that if 
> something should flood the filesystem, the superuser still has space to 
> operate on the partition.

Partially.  It is also a performace hack - the filesystem rapidly gets much 
slower when there is less than 10% free space, so the system ensures that 
users can't fill it up so much that it gets too slow.




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