Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 07:51:17 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Pierre Etchemaite <> | Subject | Re: Large disk partition over 300GB |
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Le 13-Jul-99 à 17:59:49, Thomas Davis écrivait : > 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. > > 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.
3Gb scattered over 300Gb can be a very sparse set, it is really the percentage of free space that matters.
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