Re: Where did my disk space go?

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:26:55AM -0600, Richard H. Fifarek wrote:
> 	If the partition is formatted already, you can adjust the reserved
> % with 'tune2fs -mX' where X is the % you want reserved.

With the filesystem unmounted, of course.

I usually use -r to reserve a specific number of blocks, usually
something << 1%.  (The default 5% is *way* too much for modern disks.)
"-r 1024" or something like that is probably more than enough of a
safety net on a filesystem like /home.

Steve
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