Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:52:31 +0400 (MSD) | Subject | Re: Large disk partition over 300GB |
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In <378B0916.F3588C8E@mandrakesoft.com> Thierry Vignaud (tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com) wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> 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. >> >> The reason that 5% of disk space is reserved is to always have some >> room left. The ext2 allocation algorithm needs this to prevent fragmentation.
> I think the main reason is to let the sysadmin to fix the system in case > of problem and to prevent users from filling all the free space. A lot > of utilities need free space for temporary files. How do you edit a conf > file if there is no room ?
And utilities can NOT use this free space :-)) And you can NOT use this room for conf files editing (unless you are root, of course)... No, main reason is to give ext2fs defragmentation algorithm space to breathe.
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