Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:32:04 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: UFS2 partition with negative used space Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506101026180.2328@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20050610042211.5d214150.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050610042211.5d214150.jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
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(The mail to this node is rather slow, so I'm sure someone else will have replied by now.) On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1e 989M -46M 956M -5% /var/tmp > > Any hints? Yep: delete some files on /var/tmp. :-) If you're asking 'how can I have negative disk space?', you might want to read newfs(8) and tunefs(8), particularly the sections dealing with the -m flag. Basically, FreeBSD reserves 8% of the disk by default for maintenance reasons: it prevents fragmentation, among other things. The super-user can override these limitations, but it's a bad idea for any length of time. (I think I'm going to tell other Windows people that it just shows how much more efficient BSD is with your disk space.) Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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