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Subject: Re: Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR
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Kevin Smith wrote:
> Just another thing, can you change or monitor the behaviour of this spare
> space reservation? Looking into man mpt gave nothing useful regarding this
> issue.

The tunefs manpage has a little about the space reservation. You can set 
it with -m IIRC when doing the newfs, but I believe it's generally best 
to leave it at the default. Note that root can still use the space, just 
not ordinary users (this leads to negative available space reported by df).

Regards,

Richard