On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Joel Rees wrote:

> > What happens when you put a file there?  What does df then
> > show?
> >
> > say,
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero  of=/blah/blah1 bs=1000000 count=1
>
> Well, I tried just copying the kernel to my /tmp partition last night,
> and the only thing that happened is that df showed the freespace had
> gone even more negative.

Could you try something for me?

The problem is that newfs from NetBSD doesn't make these problem file
systems. ;-)

How big is /tmp? Can you umount the file system and see how well it
compresses? i.e. gzip < /dev/rsdXY > somefile.gz (I think that syntax will
work)?

Thanks!

Take care,

Bill