Christian Heimes wrote: > Jeff Schwab wrote: >> I'm not sure how superuser-only space would be reserved in the first >> place. I don't see anything relevant in the fdisk man page. > > man mkfs > > :)
Thank you. Looks like the feature is only supported by particular file systems. I don't see anything at mkfs(8), but I do (for example) see the -m flag at mke2fs(8). What I've done in the past is to make the boot partition big enough for emergency, super-user system administration. In the default boot configuration, I just don't mount /boot. When the other partitions get filled up by some runaway process (which happens with surprising (to me) frequency), I mount the boot partition so I have some breathing room. I guess the formally reserved blocks in the filesystem are meant to serve the same purpose. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
