2005/9/13, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I read it as "don't touch for amanda usage" the last 0.5GB. Work only > with what is above that. Of the part amanda can work with, reserve 30% > for degraded mode. > > If, at the beginning of the dump, you started with 3GB available space > on the holding disk partition amanda could use 2.5GB of it. Of the 2.5GB, > amanda would reserve about 0.85GB for degraded mode. It would work with > the other 1.65GB. > > OTOH, if you started with only 750MB, amanda would only have 165MB to use > for non-degraded mode. (750MB - 500MB untouchable) * 0.7 usable >
OK, thanks. But that does not explain why dumping 8gb with approx 130 Gb free on the holding disk results in about 95% of the time in "no hold" status...