free space on filesystems

[Conor P. Cahill]

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 / &

First off, try putting some returns in your posts (so the entire thing
isn't on a single line.

Now, as to your question.  The 10% isn't really being reserved for root. The
10% isn't writable by normal users because when the UFS file system gets
above 90% full performance suffers significantly.

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