Tomas Davidek wrote: > I had troubles when partitioning the disk during the installation using > Debian installer (beta 3). The problem is that the default format (ext2 or > ext3) makes the system with 5% reserved space for root, which is sometimes > too much. Therefore, I prefer to have an option to change this value. > > So I tried to format the partition manually via > mke2fs -j -m 1 /dev/hda2 > and then try to remount it (by setting "use existing format"). The problem > is that after exiting the partitioning section the installer complainted > about wrong format of the partition, so I could not continue. > > I event tried to modified the script residing in the ram disk at that > time, but I didn't succced. Is there an (relatively) easy way how to > override the default 5% reserved space ? If not, I would suggest to > include such an option into the HDD partitioning section. Currently the best way is probably to install with the defaults, and then use tune2fs -m on the running system to tweak the values. I have forwarded your mail to our bug tracking system as a wishlist bug report, perhaps we can add something to allow tweaking of these values in the installer. -- see shy jo
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