From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 19 4:53:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from sentinel.office1.bg (sentinel.office1.bg [195.24.48.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FC1737B479 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 04:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6619 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Oct 2000 11:53:22 -0000 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:53:22 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: df problem Message-ID: <20001019145322.A265@ringwraith.office1.bg> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:47:12AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:47:12AM -0500, George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu wrote: > FreeBSD 4.1.1 > > P200 w/64MB RAM > > I think the drive in quesiton is 8 GB. > > The output of the df command, note ad0s1f (/usr) has a novel availability. > > Is this a feature? > > > bash-2.04$ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 49583 34300 11317 75% / > /dev/ad0s1f 7800084 7440147 -264069 104% /usr > /dev/ad1s1e 6430169 1827652 4088104 31% /usr1 > /dev/ad0s1e 19815 4237 13993 23% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc This means that your /usr filesystem has exceeded its free space for normal users. There's usually a certain amount set aside for the superuser - to keep critical system processes running. It is usually 8%, but may be modified at newfs(8) time or later by using tunefs(8). See the respective manual pages for more info. Once the filesystem gets this full, any non-superuser write request returns an 'out of disk space' error, while superuser processes may still continue working, until the actual disk space is exhausted. Hope that helps. G'luck, Peter -- The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message