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From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Lots of Q's about 386bsd 0.1
Keywords: mtools df cpio screen3.2
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Date: 6 Aug 92 17:23:53 GMT
References: <colin.713070328@marsh> <13165@chalmers.se>
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In article <13165@chalmers.se> dxper@dtek.chalmers.se (Per Anders Olausson) writes:
|colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes:
|
|>9)	When I run df I get
|>filesystem	512-blks	used	avail	capacity	mounted on
|>/dev/wd0a	   11271        6897	 3246	     68%	      /
|>/dev/wd0h	   49781       45485	 -683	    102%	      /usr
|>                                         ^^^^       ^^^^ 
|
|  This is a feature of the fast file system. It reserves around 10% of the 
|space because of performance issues. However, as root you can go all the way

I still maintain this is a bug. Not the 10% bit, that is correct
behaviour. The bit I think is a bug is that avail should be 0 and not a
minus value. It is on all the other systems I use. It's not exactly a
hard bug to fix but I guess most users feel there are more pressing
things to get sorted.  However, it does puzzle those users who don't
realise what's happening. I'll get around to fixing myself eventually.

-- 
  Paul Richards at Cardiff university, UK.

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