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Re: what if root partition or any other becomes full



On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 12:04:09PM -0400, Jason M. Harvey wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 11:21, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> 
> > 
> > If you use ext2 or ext3, normal user processes can not fill the entire
> > disk. There is 5% reserved for root. This means that when the disk fills
> > up, random processes may start to crash, but you will always be able to
> > log in as root to fix the ptoblems.
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> > > 
> wow,
> 
> that's cool. i never knew that! glad i asked.

One side-effect is that ext2 is not very suitable for floppy disks
where diskspace is important.

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