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- From: noyau@pelane.cubx.com (Eric Noyau)
- Subject: Re: Disk space
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.141507.7603@pelane.cubx.com>
- Sender: noyau@pelane.cubx.com
- Reply-To: e_noyau@cubx.com
- Organization: Cub'X systemes
- References: <1993Jan12.004744.10378@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:15:07 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1993Jan12.004744.10378@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- David.Kelman@launchpad.unc.edu (David Kelman) writes:
- > This will probably sound like a very naive question, but I am a novice
- > at Unix and the NeXT. According to Workspace, I have 133 Meg free on my
- > disk. According to Inspector, the entire file system is taking up 222 Meg.
- > I have a 406 Meg disk, formatted as per norm (512K blocks), and that is what
- > is reported as it's size when I boot up the machine. Where are the other 51
- > Meg?
- >
-
- Perhaps an explanation...
-
- excerpt from "man tunefs" :
- > [...]
- > DESCRIPTION
- > Tunefs is designed to change the dynamic parameters of a
- > file system which affect the layout policies. The parame-
- > ters which are to be changed are indicated by the flags
- > given below:
- > [...]
- > -m minfree
- > This value specifies the percentage of space held back
- > from normal users; the minimum free space threshold.
- > The default value used is 10%. This value can be set
- > to zero, however up to a factor of three in throughput
- > will be lost over the performance obtained at a 10%
- > threshold. Note that if the value is raised above the
- > current usage level, users will be unable to allocate
- > files until enough files have been deleted to get under
- > the higher threshold.
- > [...]
-
- default minfree = 10%. 10% of 400 meg = 40 meg lost...
-
- Eric
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