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    SubjectRe: Large disk partition over 300GB

    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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