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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 10:26:22 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        lore <lore@phile.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Circumventing a full partition?
Message-ID:  <3739493E.10F6D158@uk.radan.com>
References:  <37380767.DE01F72@phile.com.au> <19990512095521.D65965@freebie.lemis.com> <373944A1.C218E14B@phile.com.au>

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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.
> 
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