Joost Roeleveld writes: > On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 04:50:40 PM Grant wrote: > > Can I reserve 0% for root on my USB hard drive which is only used for > > backups and does not contain an OS? > > Yes: > > mke2fs -m 0 /dev/usb-drive
Although a value > 0 helps against fragmentation. And when rdiff-backup has
failed because it ran out of space, regressing to the previous sane state
will need a little free space.
Wonko
