On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Lokadamus wrote: > Mon Jun 20 11:41:58 2011 849M /tmp > Mon Jun 20 11:42:01 2011 Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/amrd0s1a 989M 987M -76M 108% / > > When a partition is over 100% its use backup place for defect sektors. A > partition is/ was created with 110% and 10% are for defect sectors. > A partition should not grow over 100%.
While hard drives do contain spare sectors used to replacing defective ones, that's not what the 110% or 108% filesystem space is for-- this spare capacity is used by FFS to reduce fragmentation, but can also be written to by root at the cost of considerable performance. See "man tunefs". Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
