free space on filesystems
Marco Negri
marco at ghost.unimi.it
Sat Apr 6 08:13:45 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 / & /usr are
>really the only normal filesystems where you'd really want to do that, but
>I can't verify that by any documentation I have. Any comments would be
>appreciated. e-mail is sufficient..........thanks.......mcb
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You should modify the "fs_minfree" field of the super block,
while the fs is not mounted, of course.
In any systems we have a command that do it.
For example for the hp-ux the command is tunefs.
Bye.
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