Summary: Reserved Space in Filesystems

From: Scott Lacy (lacy@gainsun1.mercer.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 01 1996 - 12:24:55 CST


Kudos to:

Nicholas R. Leroy: nleroy@norland.com
Larry Chin: larry@ca.cch.com
Markus Weber: weber@ash.crd.ge.com
Rich Casto: rich@loopexpert.com
Stephen Harris: sweh@mpn.com
Raju Hrishnamurthy: raju@hoho.ecologic.net
Ric Anderson: ric@rtd.com
Brian Hanna: Brian.Hanna@dataserv.com
Rich Kulawiec: rsk@itw.com
Jack Goldsmith: jackg@calfp.com
John Justin Hough: john@eos.oncology.uthscsa.edu
Celeste Stokely: celeste@celestial.stokely.com

Basically, this reserved space is space set aside for root in case the
filesystem fills up so he/she can go in and clean up the mess. This is
changeable via tunefs, it defaults to 10% of the filesystem. I'll
probably go in and change this, as this is on a 4gb filesystem, and I want
some of that 400 megs back. :)

Scott



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