free space on filesystems
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Sun Apr 7 04:24:46 AEST 1991
brinich at keinstr.UUCP (Mark Brinich) writes:
>Seems to me that keeping the default 10% of disk space to be accessible
>only by root is wasteful in most cases. In fact it seems that / &
First off, try putting some returns in your posts (so the entire thing
isn't on a single line.
Now, as to your question. The 10% isn't really being reserved for root. The
10% isn't writable by normal users because when the UFS file system gets
above 90% full performance suffers significantly.
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