Re: Numbers from 'df' don't match

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:25:10AM -0500, Jamin Collins wrote:
> Problem here is that it is not only doing this on the / (root) filesystem.
> If you look at the /boot you will notice that it is off by the same
> percentage.  Additionally, while I can see the intention behind this it
> doesn't make much sense to me to have over 400 meg locked away on a 9 gig
> partition.

It is not "locked away".  It is reserved for root processes.  Trust
me, you don't want your root processes to run out of disk space.  It
is not a pretty sight.

> I realize that many suggest using multiple different paritions
> for /, /usr, /home, etc... However, without a decent amount of experience
> this can lead to more wasted space.  In short I'm a little dissapointed, I
> turned to linux for control over what was happening on my system.  Now, I'm
> being told that Linux is taking away my control over something like
> this.

Linux is protecting itself from users.  That makes it a more robust
system than, say, Windoze.  I make that to be A Good Thing (tm).

> If I'm following this correctly, I can count on losing 5% of any drive I put
> linux on?

With all due respect, kwitcherbitchen. :-)  No responsible SysAdmin
will allow any filesystem to get over 90% full.  Disk space is cheap.

Cheers,
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