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On Monday 03 August 2009 22:51:58 Thierry de Coulon wrote: |
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> On Monday 03 August 2009, Grant wrote: |
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> > # df |
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> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on |
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> > /dev/sda3 960872076 754795944 157266648 83% / |
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> The partition is fairly full, probably the system has a hard time finding a |
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> spot to create an unfragmented file. I remember I read a partition should |
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> not be more than 50% used, maybe I'm wrong. |
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Well, that is just flat out wrong and simple logic tells you why. |
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If it were true, you could never use more than half your disk space. So you |
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buy a 1T disk to get 500G. Doesn't make sense right? |
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The world is full of people who talk through holes in their arses. You seem to |
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have read one of their missives. |
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> Anyway, I would not use such a full partition for / or /home. When it |
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> happend I moved /usr to another partition. |
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You do want some breathing space, at least as big as the largest chunk of data |
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the fs layer is going to move around in one operation. This of course is a |
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highly variable amount. About 5% is a reasonable rule of thumb, modified by |
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benchmarks you do on your own data. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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