From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 18:23:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850901065676 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:23:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout018.mac.com (asmtpout018.mac.com [17.148.16.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D33F8FC1A for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:23:09 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp018.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LN5002CBKEKAV10@asmtp018.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:23:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.4.6813,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-06-21_08:2011-06-21, 2011-06-21, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1106210167 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4E00DD44.1070706@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:23:08 -0700 Message-id: References: <4DFF1A70.3030300@my.gd> <4E00DD44.1070706@gmx.de> To: Lokadamus X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: Damien Fleuriot , Traiano Welcome , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: (no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:23:09 -0000 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