On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:56:11AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >IIRC the number used to be 10% reserved, 90% user back when drives > > were a lot smaller. That may have changed but I do not know the > > actual number now. > > > >The available above and the difference in numbers indicate it still > >might be the original 10% reserved space that got you. > > Ahh, I wasn't aware of that distinction. Thank you. > > In this case its a huge gotcha of over 10GB. Thats more like 13%. > Is there any way to reduce this to a fixed figure of say 500 megs or > so since amanda doesn't run as root, but suid root for much of what it > does? > > Or is it time to revisit the srcs for du & df & add a _max_reserved? > The standard reserved in Linux is 5% of the disk space. -- ======================================================================= The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt. -- Elvis Costello ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
