tune2fs -m "reserved space?"

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

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 at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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