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From: davidek@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:34:57 +0200 (CEST)
To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Subject: Re: formatting partitions
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.
Hello,
thanks for the answer, I tried to apply your suggestion but it does not
work. Although the command tune2fs -m 1 /dev/hdX reports only 1% will be
reserved, the subsequent tune2fs -l /dev/hdX still reports 5% reserved
(even after reboot for the root partition). Also, when I did "df" before
and after, no change. I tried the same for the ohter partitions (/home,
/scratch), the same results. But if I re-format them (mke2fs -j -m 1
/dev/hdX), then tune2fs -l reports the correct reserved block amount and
also df displays more space on the disk.
So the question is: what does the tune2fs -m really do ???
> 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.
Thanks, this would be nice.
Best regards
Tomas
E-mail : davidek@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz,
Tomas.Davidek@cern.ch
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