Re: what if root partition or any other becomes full
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:19:53PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
mke2fs -m 0
perhaps?
Richard
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