Wow, response on this list is fast!
Several people have sent queries which make me realize that there is more
info I could have provided ....
The disk was empty (never used except for the creation of a couple of
empty directories) before the user started writing to it, so there are
lots of free inodes (64 used, 4176702 used).
The user has only writen about 58 files in total but they are larger (206
Mb) .. so fragmentation shouldn't be a problem either ....
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:48:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Hudson <mjhudson_at_uwaterloo.ca>
To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
Followup-To: poster
Subject: User cannot use up all space on disk
I am running DU 4.0F with a UFS filesystem. There are no quotas enabled
(for anyone)
I would like a certain user to be able to use as much as possible of an
18gb disk partition.
The user is copying files there but sees "no space left on device" when
the disk is 72% full. Hunting through the archives I discovered this
comment (in response to a somewhat different "disk full").
I used tunefs to change the minfree to 5% (it was 10% before), but this of
course made no difference.
"*It's a UFS file system. Part of the space may be wasted (depending on
the disk geometry), some of the space is used for file system metadata,
and in a UFS, a part of the space is normally reserved so that
non-privileged users can not fill the disk so full that the system can no
longer do important things like extend the size of a directory."
Is it possible that some of the disk is reserved? (surely not 25%?).
If so can I tweak this number?
Or is it likely to be something else?
Thanks
Mike Hudson
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