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From: renglish@hpisod2.HP.COM (Robert English)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-UX problems and suggestions (s800)
Message-ID: <16710020@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 89 17:20:58 GMT
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> / frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) /  8:38 am  Sep 27, 1989 /

> ...once the disk has been formatted and mounted, bdf(1) reports only
> 278MB available.  This leaves almost 10% of the physical disk space
> unavailable, which is unacceptable for a drive of this capacity...

Berkeley file systems have a "minimum acceptable percentage of file
system blocks."  If the file system reaches that threshold, only the
super-user can allocate blocks.  Because of the way in which Berkeley
file systems allocate blocks performance suffers considerably if the
percentage of free blocks drops too low.  See filsys(4) for details.

If you still want to change the value, tunefs(1M) will allow you to do
so.

--bob--
renglish@hpda.hp.com