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Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space



On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:04:14PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> If you are interested in retrieving some disk space on this partition, I would
> suggest to reduce the percentage of diskspace which may only be allocated by
> privileged  processes. It is normally 5% of the diskspace of a partition. In
> your case this makes ca. 1.8 GB. To me this seems more than ever needed. If you
> reduce this reserve to, e.g., 2% or ca. 700 MB, which seems to me still enough
> reserve. And you gain ca. 1.1 GB free space.
> For the "ext" family of file systems this can be done on the running system.

The suspense is killing me. Is it a secret?

> The 5% value was introduced when storage devices were much much smaller than today.

TBH, I'm good at D/L stuff, not so good at dealing with it until I have
to. I could easily free up a few gigs, but the motivation/inspiration
isn't strong enough at the moment. :)

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who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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