As I understand it, filesystem performance does degrade as the usage
goes over 85-90%; although I've been running my own system at over 95%
for a while now, with no *major* ill effects.  I'm using ext3, and still
have a few gigabytes of free space even at that usage level, however...

links, anyone?  I know I've seen an article which contains some
performance charts, for each type of filesystem at various states of
"full".

ciao,

   Ben


On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:10:58 -0600
Timothy Bolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

| Bob
| That's nice. 
| Thanks.
| 
| I should have asked this in my first post but you might know what is a
| good percentage of disk space not to go over for optimal performance. 
| Is it below 90 or lower.  I'm sitting at 85 now.  Is this ok?  And
| what if you do get up near 98 or 99 would I have seen my system
| locking up.  Or will Linux manage to do ok.
| 
| Tim
| 
| On Monday 10 November 2003 01:35 pm, you wrote:
| > Timothy Bolz wrote:
| > > The question I have is what directory uses up the most space and
| > > could I just mount it for example /usr and would /usr use this
| > > partiton to extend itself.
| >
| > Here's what I do.
| >
| >     $ su
| >     # du -kx / | sort -rn | tee /tmp/du.out
| >
| >
| > That creates a file in /tmp that lists every directory on the file
| > system, sorted by decreasing size.  Look at the first 20 or so, find
| > the files you don't need, and delete them.  Then delete the temp
| > file. (-:
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