> While it is technically free, you won't be able to use it in day-to-day
> operations. It is reserved for the superuser. I believe it is so that if
> something should flood the filesystem, the superuser still has space to
> operate on the partition.
Partially. It is also a performace hack - the filesystem rapidly gets much
slower when there is less than 10% free space, so the system ensures that
users can't fill it up so much that it gets too slow.
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