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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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