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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!voskovec.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!rtd.com!dgy From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: strange result from the df command Date: 31 Jan 1997 15:43:47 GMT Organization: CICDO Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5ct3vj$lpv@baygull.rtd.com> References: <32E8CEC0.41C67EA6@genesis4.sps.mot.com> <5cdsn2$g0c@baygull.rtd.com> <5csrg5$j7n$3@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34904 In article <5csrg5$j7n$3@mark.ucdavis.edu>, David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> wrote: >Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> wrote: >: I thought this was answered in the FAQ... :> > >: About 10% of the blocks in a UFS partition are reserved. You need >: to be root (or a process running as root) to access them. > >Not quite right... > >You need to be root to write to a disk at 100%+. However, once written >to the disk, *all* users and read the bits. Yes, given that the original poster was asking why he couldn't *use* that extra chunk of disk space, I would have assumed it would be understood that "access" in this context meant "access for the purpose of WRITING". Sheesh! Thank God I didn't make any *spelling* errors... --don