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SubjectRe: Large disk partition over 300GB
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >
> >You may want to read the mke2fs and decide whether you want to decrease -i a
> >bit and maybe set -m to 1 instead of 0.
>
> Ofcourse you realize that setting -m to 1 or worse, 0, will result
> in a badly fragmented disk when it fills up and really bad performance.
>

BUT, when it's a 300 GB partition, does the filesystem really need 5% of
300GB?

ie, 300GB*5% = 15GB reserved space.

That's kinda large and wasteful, isn't it?

Whereas 300GB*1% = 3GB reserved space, which is still a large amount of
disk space to hold in reserve for "fragmentation" purposes.

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