On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 12:35 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > It is a good policy to never exceed 80% usage on any partition, > precisely for performance reasons. I am not certain how much each > filesystem type (Ext2/3, XFS, FAT32) is affected, but 80...85% is a good > number to keep in mind. Exceed it, and the performance usually starts to > drop dramatically. Agreed in full. I generally make my partitions a lot larger than I expect them to be used, for this very reason. Granted, it could be easier for me, as disk space really *is* inexpensive where I live; whereas it may not be in other areas... -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key: 0xDA3634D7
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