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From: jmm@skivs.UUCP (Joel M. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: disk space for root vs users
Message-ID: <3141@skivs.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 90 16:32:47 GMT
Reply-To: jmm@ski.UUCP (Joel M. Miller)
Organization: Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
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Has anyone noticed that available disk space is about 5,000K less
when logged in as a normal user (eg Guest) than when logged in as root?
Recall that I have set up my 80MB disk with "/" and "/users" on the
same partition.  That is, when I log in as root, "df /dev/c5d0s0"
says that I have about 7,000K available, while as jmm or Guest, 2,000K.
I thought that the only difference between root and normal user logins
was permissions.

(A bit of self-defeating advice: don't even *think* of running A/UX off
an 80 MB disk!  Self-defeating, because as soon as I scrape up money
for a big disk, my 80 will be for sale!)
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