df oddity (to a newbie)

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 02:09:55AM -0800, Joshua Eckroth wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:57:45AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:38:34AM -0800, Joshua Eckroth wrote:
> > > I installed a 80gig harddrive for /usr/home, but df has been consistently giving me weird numbers:
> > > 
> > > Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > > /dev/ad5s1d  75685352 24426308 45204216    35%    /usr/home
> > > 
> > > what's with Used + Avail != 1K-blocks?
> > 
> > FAQ:
> > 
> >     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL
> > 
> 
> Wow, 8% exactly.  Though it makes me sad to see 6gigs go away.

Do you know you can tweak that value? 8% is a bit much on a 75Gb
filesystem.  See tunefs(8), particularly the '-m' minfree option.

	Cheers,

	Matthew
 

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