Re: full data disk -- any chance of recovery

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> Another alternative: most unix filesistems actually set it up so that
> there is still some free space left even if it's reporting 100%. On
> FreeBSD, you can change the amount of reserved space with tunefs -m, but
> you should read the caveats in man tunefs.

Jim, excellent thought!  And on Linux at least you can change it with the
filesystem still mounted:

tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1

would probably do the trick.

You might want to set it back after you're done though. :-)  Default appears
to be 5 on my machine.

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