On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
Another alternative: most unix filesistems actually set it up so that
there is still some free space left even if it's reporting 100%. On
FreeBSD, you can change the amount of reserved space with tunefs -m, but
you should read the caveats in man tunefs.
Jim, excellent thought! And on Linux at least you can change it with the
filesystem still mounted:
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1
would probably do the trick.
You might want to set it back after you're done though. :-) Default appears
to be 5 on my machine.
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