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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space |
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> for the superuser, which is 5% as default: |
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> tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition |
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> Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation |
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> you will get. |
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Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the need |
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for fragmentation. I routinely use 0 on non-system filesystems. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem. |
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