removing EISA partition (SOLVED
Hiisi
very-cool at rambler.ru
Thu Mar 12 20:32:41 UTC 2009
> That used spaced was reserved for root by mkfs when the
> partition was created. The mkfs command displays a message to that
> effect.
> When you create a partition mkfs says something like (numbers for
> example only):
> "66970 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user"
>
> You can change the reserved block count percentage to 0% for a
partition
> you already created with:
> # tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdaX
>
> Or, create the filesystem with:
> # mkfs -t ext2 -m 0 /dev/sdaX
>
> man mkfs.ext2
> -m reserved-blocks-percentage
> Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved
> for the
> super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows
> root-owned
> daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function
> correctly
> after non-privileged processes are prevented from
writing
> to the
> filesystem. The default percentage is 5%.
>
> So, its a good thing to have that reserved space.
> The disk is big enough, let it be.
>
> Read the tune2fs and mkfs man pages or eSearch the keywords to learn
> more.
> ~af
>
OK. I see.
I'll do nothing with it. Actually a friend of mine has a bigger hard
drive he doesn't need. It's 160 GB HDD. I'm going to install F10 on it
as soon as I have it. Anyway, thanks for your help. Appreciate that.
--
Hiisi.
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