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