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Re: formatting partitions



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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