Root 8% reserved space and tunefs

[Casey Scott]

On Friday 08 July 2005 07:37 am, Elliot Crosby-McCullough wrote:
> Evening.
>
> 	We are downloading an item to a freebsd 5.3 server which has a size a
> little short of the max size of the HD.  For technical reasons there is
> no way to remove portions of the item before it is finished.
>
> 	There is enough space but only if the 8% reserved for root is taken
> into account.  This is not currently being used as the files are being
> aquired as www (via apache).
>
> 	I cannot use tunefs to free the 8% as the files are on /usr/ and cannot
> be umounted.
>
> 	If anyone has any ideas they would be much appreciated; the only things
> we haven't tried are slowly shifting the data onto a seperate slice,
> shifting the volume bit by bit, trying to have apache run as root
> temporarily or replacing the HD with a larger one (the latter being the
> least viable).
>
> Sincerely,
> Elliot Crosby-McCullough
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Why can't you just download the item as root then? You could probably do a 
wget under sudo. 

Casey