Depends on the filesystem. Older unix filesystems will spend time
trying to cram more stuff in, even using inode space for data. Hence,
you could sometimes see greater than 100% used. I've also heard tales
that deleting and reusing space can cause fragmentation on filesystems,
and on some systems free space coalescing is delayed. I've even heard
tales that the allocation % is a lie, there's a bit of space left over
than only root can get to. I don't know about newfangled stuff.
jg
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Received on Wed Jan 25 2006 - 18:08:56 CST
