Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:31:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: df inconsistency Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990903152834.5065A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <199909031914.PAA21107@laker.net>
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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Steve Friedrich wrote: > df output on my system: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd1s1e 1113967 929244 95606 91% /usr > > Problem is that (total blocks) - (used blocks) does not equal > (available blocks) > 1113967 - 929244 = 184723 = 83% > > 95606/1113967 = 9% (so the inverse is 91%) > > So it appears that 89117 are "unavailable" but not counted as "used". I believe that there is a minimum percentage of disk space 8% reserved for performance reason. If the file system is *entirely* full, its performance will be very bad. Only root can access the reserved part of space. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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