Re: Where did my disk space go?

["Charlie Brune" <silug27@BruneWorld.com>]

Since my "/chas" filesystem is just a place to store data, is there really
any need to reserve *any* space at all?  With 200GB, I'd like to think
that root could find a little room. 8-)

Thanks everyone!
Charlie


> 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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