From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 6 17: 8: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA8237B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:07:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06755; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:07:44 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08287; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:07:44 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200102070107.MAA08287@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: Andrew Hesford Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: df output incosistency In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 06 Feb 2001 18:48:59 -0600. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:07:44 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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