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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:42:09 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Defragment HDD
Message-ID:  <200307241542.09377.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030724201242.GC32490@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307241548210.73690-100000@lexus.isprime.com> <004501c3521d$e8532c40$3501a8c0@pro.sk> <20030724201242.GC32490@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Thursday 24 July 2003 03:12 pm, Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> The FFS filesystem reserves 8% of the disk
> space so that it can allocate contiguous blocks for files.

It happens to serve that function, but I understood the reserve is for 
root so that users can not fill filesystems and kill root processes. 
The reserve does not apply to UID 0.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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