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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-10.sprintlink.net!kirin.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!relay.nuxi.com!obrien From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: strange result from the df command Date: 31 Jan 1997 13:19:01 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5csrg5$j7n$3@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <32E8CEC0.41C67EA6@genesis4.sps.mot.com> <5cdsn2$g0c@baygull.rtd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nuxi.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970120] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34791 Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> wrote: : I thought this was answered in the FAQ... :> : About 10% of the blocks in a UFS partition are reserved. You need : to be root (or a process running as root) to access them. Not quite right... You need to be root to write to a disk at 100%+. However, once written to the disk, *all* users and read the bits. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)