free space on filesystems

Marco Negri marco at ghost.unimi.it
Sat Apr 6 08:13:45 AEST 1991


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 / & /usr are 
>really the only normal filesystems where you'd really want to do that, but 
>I can't verify that by any documentation I have.  Any comments would be 
>appreciated.  e-mail is sufficient..........thanks.......mcb
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	You should modify the "fs_minfree" field of the super block,
	while the fs is not mounted, of course.
	In any systems we have a command that do it.
	For example for the hp-ux the command is tunefs.
	Bye.
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