Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:59:49 -0700 | From | Thomas Davis <> | Subject | Re: Large disk partition over 300GB |
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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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