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. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Don't annihilate, assimilate: MacDonalds, not missiles.
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