> While it is technically free, you won't be able to use it in day-to-day
> operations. It is reserved for the superuser. I believe it is so that if
> something should flood the filesystem, the superuser still has space to
> operate on the partition.
Partially. It is also a performace hack -
While it is technically free, you won't be able to use it in day-to-day
operations. It is reserved for the superuser. I believe it is so that if
something should flood the filesystem, the superuser still has space to
operate on the partition.
This can result in ridiculous amounts of reserved s