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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:21:26 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Kyryll A Mirnenko <mirya@ukrpost.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why does `df` lie about free space    
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.58.0403171217500.25730@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <13030752.1079506779091.JavaMail.resin@web.ukrpost.net>
References:  <13030752.1079506779091.JavaMail.resin@web.ukrpost.net>

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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote:

>   Thanks, thats what I want. So that means nobody but root can write
> to that preserved (with `tunefs -m`) space? How can I allow more users
> to do that?

Using "tunefs -m". You need to be really careful doing this, and read
the man page for tunefs again, particularly the warning about how
lowering this number can trash your filesystem's performance.

>   (my mail server crashed on friday, so I didn't receive freebsd
> digest about this)

jan

PS. You keep on appearing to confuse the notion of free data blocks with
free inodes. They're not the same thing: they are two distinct resources
and your filesystem can run out of either pretty much independently.

-- 
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