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>> It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've |
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>> read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data. |
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>> Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root? |
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> If you used ext2/ext3 with mke2fs, the default is 5% reserved. If you |
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> put the whole disk in one partition, than that works out to be just |
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> about 50G. I don't know what you use the disk for, but it seems a bit |
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> silly to have a 1TB disk in just 1 partition for the entire system and |
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> waste 50G this way. Even just splitting the root and home partitions |
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> would be nice. I mean, all system files, the portage tree, and the |
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> distfiles should fit into 50G with no problem, having a 50G reserved |
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> space really is silly. |
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Can I change the amount reserved for root? |
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- Grant |
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