Did this get resolved in the end? Sorry I didn't jump in, but I know what's happening and will google the answer when I get to work.
Yes, BSD reserves an amount for root. No, this no longer makes sense with 1TB drives. Yes, it's fixable. -- Jared Earle :: iPhone-at-23x-dot-net http://jearle.eu/ :: http://blog.23x.net On 4 Mar 2009, at 22:15, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4-Mar-2009, at 14:49, Roger Howard wrote: >> Hmmm, just jumping in here - I figured the problem is more to do with >> hardlnks in the path... I've seen a similar issue in the past with >> Finder >> filesize calculations where the total size of a directory which >> contains >> hardlinks may exceed the total capacity of the volume (imagine a 1GB >> volume, with a single 500MB file hardlinked 4 times - perfectly >> legal, but >> confusing to Finder IIRC). It's been a few years though, so I could >> be >> fuzzy on this, but we were using rsync and hardlinks to create >> incremental >> snapshots of a filesystem on our nearline storage array, and Mac OSX >> Finder >> - no surprise - wasn't quite sure how to deal with hardlinks. > > Yeah, but in this case, its FreeBSD, and I think it DOES deal with > hardlinks just fine. > > Besides, 8% of 144GB is 11.5GB, which is exactly what DF is reporting > as 'mising' space on that mount. > > -- > Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see > paradise by the dashboard light. > > _______________________________________________ > OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] > http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters > List hosted at http://cat5.org/ _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
