[SUMMARY] Something strange!!!! ???

From: Vejux Florent <vejux_at_altair.u-bourgogne.fr>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:42:26 +0100

Hi!

        Thank you for your answers that were very speedly!
Specially thanks to Vladas Lapinskas and Thomas Leitner that replied me
respectivly :

> Just don't worry - some disk space (it could be configured, by
> default it 5 or 10 persent - I don't remember) reserved only for root. So,
> all non-reserved space on your /usr partition was used, and some reserved
> space as well. That's why you have 111% :-)
>

AND

> This is not so strange. The UFS filesystem sets aside about 10% of
> diskspace for emergency use, meaning that only ROOT can access the
> remaining disk space and not user processes. So you get a 100% full disk
> even if there are actually still 10% left.
>
> This behaviour is tunable with the "tunefs" command.
>

I previously wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> We have a Alpha server 1000 with DU v4.0b. This morning, when I
> arrived, I looked up the pourcentage of used of our disks and look what
> I get:
>
> # df
> Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/rz0a 126334 69284 44416 61% /
> /proc 0 0 0 100% /proc
> /dev/rz0g 1521972 1507850 0 111% /usr
> /dev/rz1g 378890 141686 199314 42%
> /usr/var/spool/mail
> /dev/rz1a 1514074 1686 1360980 1% /usr/tmp1
> /dev/rz2a 2173438 1769916 186178 91% /usr/users
> /dev/rz2h 5946196 4426760 924816 83%
> /usr/users/etuds
> /dev/rz1h 1599396 3652 1435804 1% /NetCache
> #
>
> It is very strange to have 111% of use with a disk that have again some
> free space!!!
>
> Are you able to explain me what happened??
>


Florent VEJUX
IUT de Dijon
Received on Mon Nov 16 1998 - 08:44:02 NZDT

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