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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