From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 22:05:15 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 6B19F16A4CF for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:05:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41810.mail.yahoo.com (web41810.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37E9843D1F for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:05:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 95168 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Apr 2005 22:05:13 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=IRAOPWyrhWmzqfSoo9OgwATFyTWZXUYuICxkGC7W4Yu/XvLPBJFjcQJZqyh4VmrDr1BiGnaTUXhnJq7rVzXBPobvcbYvOZNUkDHt5/x1nO2pcWjT8Paw7YyxRN6y1Atx6DxCbUQtorkj28t/bqsT/Juv+5mwkH2Wm0q1k4wfWQU= ; Message-ID: <20050411220512.95166.qmail@web41810.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.112.21.27] by web41810.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:05:12 PDT Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:05:12 -0700 (PDT) From: NMH To: Julian Stacey In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: questions 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 22:05:15 -0000 --- Julian Stacey wrote: > 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) If you do man tunefs it you will see how it warns that less than 15% is dangerous. (even though normally only 8% is reserved. It's especially dangerous when you have Many Many files. (and a large hard drive - thus more to manage) > Cross posting 2 lists is deprecated, so I dropped > freebsd-hardware@ > as this question is too basic for hardware@ as well > as questions@. For shame. A "your question is too dumb to have written to our mailing list"? I hope you are not trying to represent the great open arms of FreeBSD and the questions mailing list. My Question is quite appropriate for either list. Nor should someone even be given the feeling their questions are too basic to bother us with! (unless your aim is to drive people away) However, I was hoping someone could point me more towards a white paper or some such other information. Such as that used by the man page for tunefs, that recommends not using more than 15% or drive capcity and how performance can degrade 3 fold of the performance at 10%. So that I can work up my own percentages for my type of file usage. (and yes Inode usage is fine) NMH. > - > Julian Stacey Net & Sys Eng Consultant, > Munich http://berklix.com > Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam). Ihr Rauch = mein > allergischer Kopfschmerz. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The Large Print Giveth And The Small Print Taketh Away -- Anon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/