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On Sunday 27 June 2010 10:27:13 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Besides, reserving some space for root can save your rear-end in case |
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> some user fills up your root partition. As long as root's processes |
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> still have a bit of disk space available, he can still log in and clean |
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> up the mess. |
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> I agree with you that reserving 5% of several TB is too much for these |
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> purposes. I think reducing it to a few 100MB is sufficient. |
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This is correct, ext2 was set up like that in the beginning and it hasn't |
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changed since. |
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Those were the days when 200M drives were BIG and reserving 10M for root was |
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enough for the purpose. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |