disk fragmentation, <0%?

[Lei Sun]

This happened, after I tested the atacontrol to rebuild the raid1.

The /tmp partition doesn't have anything but several empty directories created.

and I have the clear /tmp directive in the rc.conf, which will clean
up the /tmp everytime when system boot up.

So that was really wierd. as it never happened this way the previous
time that I was rebuilding the raid1.

Thanks

Lei

On 8/15/05, Freminlins <freminlins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/15/05, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> > >
> 
> > As someone mentioned, there is a FAQ on this.   You should read it.
> >
> > It is going negative because you have used more than the nominal
> > capacity of the slice.   The nominal capacity is the total space
> > minus the reserved proportion (usually 8%) that is held out.
> > Root is able to write to that space and you have done something
> > that got root to write beyond the nominal space.
> 
> I'm not sure you are right in this case. I think you need to re-read
> the post. I've quoted the relevent part here:
> 
> > > Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > > /dev/ar0s1e    248M   -278K    228M    -0%    /tmp
> 
> Looking at how the columns line up I have to state that I too have
> never seen this behaviour.  As an experiment I over-filled a file
> system and here's the results:
> 
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1f    965M    895M   -7.4M   101%    /tmp
> 
> Note capacity is not negative. So that makes three of us in this
> thread who have not seen negative capacity on UFS.
> 
> I have seen negative capacity when running an old version of FreeBSD
> with a very large NFS mount (not enough bits in statfs if I remember
> correctly).
> 
> > ////jerry
> 
> Frem.
>