Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:23:08 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Lokadamus <lokadamus@gmx.de> Cc: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>, Traiano Welcome <Traiano.Welcome@mtnbusiness.co.za>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <ABFF9F93-E969-425F-895E-4792D3067305@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4E00DD44.1070706@gmx.de> References: <E012414FCF65894B89F69DE76AE15E9905905E67@CPT-EXCH01.int.mtnbusiness.net> <4DFF1A70.3030300@my.gd> <E012414FCF65894B89F69DE76AE15E9905905FEF@CPT-EXCH01.int.mtnbusiness.net> <4E00DD44.1070706@gmx.de>
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On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Lokadamus wrote: > Mon Jun 20 11:41:58 2011 849M /tmp > Mon Jun 20 11:42:01 2011 Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 989M 987M -76M 108% / > > When a partition is over 100% its use backup place for defect sektors. A partition is/ was created with 110% and 10% are for defect sectors. > A partition should not grow over 100%. While hard drives do contain spare sectors used to replacing defective ones, that's not what the 110% or 108% filesystem space is for-- this spare capacity is used by FFS to reduce fragmentation, but can also be written to by root at the cost of considerable performance. See "man tunefs". Regards, -- -Chuck
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