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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:25:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > The 5% is historical from days when disks are much smaller. If you |
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> > have a sensible partition scheme you only really need to reserve the |
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> > blocks on the $ROOT filesystem. If the partition in question (IIRC) is |
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> > only for /home, then you can just turn off the reserved blocks all |
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> > together. |
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> Isn't another purpose of those 5% the reduction of fragmentation that |
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> occurs more when there is few free space left? Although I also reduce ift |
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> on very large partitions. But I never set it to exactly zero. |
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Perhaps? I don't know. My ext3 partitions with 0% are all for large |
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files (videos and music) that are more or less static, so I can't say |
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anything about fragmentation on them. My other partitions are all |
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reiser, so can't say anything about fragmentation on them either :) |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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