From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 21:24:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2838816A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:24:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tower.berklix.org (bsd.bsn.com [194.221.32.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A3543D58 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:24:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A3A62.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.58.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j3BLOh8o016912; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:24:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (fire.jhs.private [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3BLOgq1002956; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:24:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.jhs.private (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3BLOgxC010220; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:24:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200504112124.j3BLOgxC010220@fire.jhs.private> To: NMH From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com/~jhs/ Munich Unix, BSD, Internet User-agent: EXMH http://beedub.com/exmh/ on FreeBSD http://freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:30:37 PDT." <20050411193037.40627.qmail@web41827.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:24:42 +0200 Sender: jhs@flat.berklix.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard drive fullness limits information help request X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:24:48 -0000 Reference: > From: NMH > Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:30:37 -0700 (PDT) > Message-id: <20050411193037.40627.qmail@web41827.mail.yahoo.com> NMH wrote: > Hi all > I know hard drives tend to not run well when near > full. They have trouble performing self adjustments > (hardware), self defragging(unix/FFS) etc.. I usually run near full. I dont have problems ('cept overflow ;-) man tunefs & you'll realise most FS's arent run full anyway (but even if I tunefs -m 0 -o space I dont normally have problems ( though OK, it'd be slow if multi person usage) Cross posting 2 lists is deprecated, so I dropped freebsd-hardware@ as this question is too basic for hardware@ as well as questions@. - Julian Stacey Net & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam). Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.