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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:33:18 +0200
From:      "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
To:        Rick Moore <rick@geckobot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: File System > 100% full
Message-ID:  <20000715173318.A6471@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <000901bfee70$930772f0$0464a8c0@patches>; from rick@geckobot.com on Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 08:23:05AM -0700
References:  <000901bfee70$930772f0$0464a8c0@patches>

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On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 08:23:05AM -0700, Rick Moore wrote:
> Unfortunately, the result I got back was: "Your file system is broken.  It
> can't possibly be 102% used"  (They do most of their work on Linux and
> Solaris.)
> 
> I know this is normal for some UNIX's to behave this way, but I can't find
> any documentation on it.  Could someone please confirm that this is the
> correct behavior for FreeBSD?  If this is documented somewhere, I'd love to
> know where...
>
See for example 'man tunefs' and go to the section where the -m option
is explained; by default, 8% of the space is reserved for root, leading
to > 100% use when root uses the reserved space.

Hope it helps,
Karel. 


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