Free partition size

[Wagner_6]

Hallo

Is there any requirement concernig the free size in partition.
We have a separate /home partition. It was filled with more than 99 percent. I recognized yesterday that a cp command failed in a script. Unfortunately I dit not log the error message, but I saw that cp has deleted the dest file before of failure.

[Pete Randall]

Hi,

I'm unaware of any "requirement" for free space. Commands, such as your cp, will fail if they have no room to write their output and this may cause problems for your system as well, but it's not required to have x percent free.

Pete

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

cp and mv creates the dest file if successful.
In ur case, script trying to copy a file to /home, since there is no sufficient space under /home cp is failing.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi
With hfs filesystems there was a recommendation of min. 10% free. I am not sure if there is a similar recommendation with vxfs filesystem. The free space is much up to your own needs, 1% seems to be far to small.