[Techtalk] df isn't accurate?

[Laurel Fan]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:39:08AM -0700, jennyw wrote:
> Does df not accurately report free space information?

At some point before the disk is completely full, only root is allowed
to consume space.  I believe the default amount of space reserved is
5%.  This is configurable when creating/formatting the filesystem, but
I'm not sure if you can change it in an existing filesystem.

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