> 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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