RE: Filesystems for Debian NSLU2

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

Anything less than 1%, it takes as 0 blocks...

Suppose I could just turn it off, seeing as its not dangerous



Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: James Bromberger [mailto:james@rcpt.to] 
Sent: 25 January 2008 23:14
To: Sam Reed
Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Filesystems for Debian NSLU2

Sam Reed wrote:
> 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?
>    

No, its not dangerous at all. The "reserved" space is, as you say, only
available to the "root" user. No other user on the system can exceed the
"disk - reserved space" capacity. If you want to use the space yourself,
then fine, change it. It doesn't really matter.
> 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
Yes. Generally I think the default is to leave around 5% "reserved". 
Feel free to drop that if you want the space for "non-root" users on your
device.

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