On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:24 -0500, Justin Conover wrote: > tune2fs > -m reserved-blocks-percentage > -r reserved-blocks-count > > If what I have read is correct, -m by default uses 5% of the disk > space for "reserved root use" On my server at home with a /home of > 1TB thats about 50GB of wasted space. > > Is this reserved space actually used by ANYTHING? Like LVM, some kind > of fragmentation? It's used by root for vital functions such as logging in when some silly user has gone and filled up non-reserved space. Admittedly 50GB is a bit excessive, especially on a filesystem that root wouldn't normally use. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez ivazquez net> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72
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