From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 2:28:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279BD14F1C for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 02:28:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10hVJ8-000BqO-0B; Wed, 12 May 1999 09:28:08 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA02631; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:27:38 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA06684; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:27:36 +0100 Message-ID: <3739493E.10F6D158@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:26:22 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lore Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Circumventing a full partition? References: <37380767.DE01F72@phile.com.au> <19990512095521.D65965@freebie.lemis.com> <373944A1.C218E14B@phile.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG lore wrote: > > Greg wrote: > > > > Output of df: > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > > /dev/wd1s2a 198399 27897 154631 15% / > > > /dev/wd1s2h 597719 44324 505578 8% /home > > > /dev/wd1s2f 694607 666675 -27636 104% /usr > > > /dev/wd1s2g 694607 49705 589334 8% /usr/local > > > /dev/wd1s2e 99183 2608 88641 3% /var > > > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > [snip] > and I'm not sure how I could have been using 104% of that file > system, with a negative number of blocks available. > Unix systems reserve ~10% of each filesystem for the OS to use for housekeeping tasks. If you check the figures for your root partition: (27897 + 154631) / 198399 * 100 = 92.000464% The highest I've seen is 109% (at which point the machine locked up and died :-) ) > Anyway, thanks to everyone that assisted. > > Cheers > Loren > > PS. I'm amazed at the work that goes into the answers in this mailing > list. > A few weeks back, Doug W was obviously putting in a *lot* of time > answering emails. And I've noticed recently several other people, > including yourself (Greg L) putting in a lot of replies. I'm making a > guess > here, but does the FBSD group have a roster of volunteers that donate > there time to answer "newbie-type" questions? If it does, I hope to get > to the stage in a few months, where I have sufficient experience and > knowledge that I can volunteer some time to the cause. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message