It looks like the problem below is actually due to a corrupt disk rather
than anything OS related ... am now running fsck and hoping it will
find/repair the errors.
Thanks to
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Tom Blinn
Selden Ball Jr
Paul LaMadeleine
David Smith
for suggestions.
> 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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Received on Wed Sep 26 2001 - 17:52:54 NZST