Messages in this thread |  | | From | Mike Shaver <> | Subject | Re: strange df output? | Date | Thu, 30 May 1996 16:38:28 -0400 (EDT) |
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Thus spake Andrew E. Mileski: > > What exactly do you end up slowing down when you do that? Does it slow > > down reads, or only writes, or what? > > AFAIK it doesn't slow anything down. The reserved space is simply > reserved for the root user.
I thought it was used by ext2fs for the defragmenting, etc.
Of course, it's possible that I don't know what I'm talking about.
Mike
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