RE: Filesystems for Debian NSLU2

["Sam Reed" <sam@reedyboy.net>]

Thanks for the info,

Thats a good point... I did think of it, but it wasn't like, "oh, i could
end up losing all my data"... Which could quite possibly happen


Changing the reserved space, from what i can gather, is used if it runs out
of space on the / drive.. It's not going to cause any problems is it?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1254271&postcount=4

"The reserved blocks are there for root's use. The reason being that the
system gets really narky if you completely run out of room on /
(specifically /var, or /tmp, I think). Programs won't start, wierd errors
will pop up, that sort of thing."

Which makes sense. So leaving some is a good idea, but presumably 5GB is
still loads (the main drive im using currently is 4GB!), so could i reduce
this down further happily?



Thanks


Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: James Bromberger [mailto:james@rcpt.to] 
Sent: 25 January 2008 22:35
To: Sam Reed
Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Filesystems for Debian NSLU2

Sam Reed wrote:
>
> I've got a 500GB drive attached to my Debian NSLU2, and noticed there 
> was 25GB of space missing
>
> A bit of research found it was reserved space - 5% (of 500 = 25)
>
> And was able to change this using "tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdb1"
>
> Someone suggested using XFS/ReiserFS over ext3.. Some more research 
> found Martin saying don't use XFS on ARM 
> (http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-XFS-on-NSLU2--td14171563.html).
> Someone else in the same thread suggested JFS would be ok..
>
> Is there going to much gained from changing to JFS/ReiserFS....?
>

I recently played with both XFS and JFS on LVM, and had both filesystems die
on me (Debian stable, kernel2.6.18). ext3 is pretty reliable. There is much
to be lost; all your data.

Caveat emptor.


JEB

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