O> That's a big if right there. For servers it isn't a problem, few > people can get capacity right to withing 10%, so you never let a > server run full. Desktops/laptops on the other hand spend most of > their lives between 80% and 100%.
Modern desktop patterns are very different to older ones - the disk fill is almost entirely continuous writes of large files (OGG, MP3, Movies etc). In addition the default ext3 behaviour reserves the last part of the disk for root - so usually it doesn't get below 5% free as only root can steal that space. Back when you had a 40MB /home the usage tended to be multiple parallel writers, permanently at 90%+ (with a "please remove unused files" motd). Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
