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SubjectRe: Large disk partition over 300GB
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:38:30 +0000, Thierry Vignaud
<tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> said:

> Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> 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.

Partly that...

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:52:31 +0400 (MSD), "Khimenko Victor"
<khim@sch57.msk.ru> said:

> 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.

Most config files _are_ edited by root, but ext2 defragmentation is an
equally good reason.

Why does one reason have to be wrong? If we have two valid reasons for
doing something, do we have to own up to only one of them?

When we added this stuff it was primarily for fragmentation, but we were
fully aware of the fact that it would be a failsafe for root at the same
time. They are both good reasons for keeping a reserved portion.

--Stephen

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