From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QtwEl-0004bb-3o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:37:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB96021C257; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.167]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2804D21C224 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.152] (helo=smtp20.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qtw7v-0003q6-Eq for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:30:51 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp20.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qtw7u-00056N-OZ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:30:50 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A8BCF0 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:34:33 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id h5fS6MXLYezB for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:34:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC5EC70E for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:34:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull? Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:30:49 +0200 Message-ID: <1431781.8gpq6YiE1N@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <2962306.tz4O8xtn7d@weird> References: <2962306.tz4O8xtn7d@weird> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Qtw7u-00056N-OZ X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-1.223, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 0.77, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -1.07) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2c6df07c5ae14102878e86a30aa35cfd On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:49:16 PM Alex Schuster wrote: > Grant writes: > > >> > Can I reserve 0% for root on my USB hard drive which is only > > >> > used for backups and does not contain an OS? > > >> > > >> Yes: > > >> > > >> mke2fs -m 0 /dev/usb-drive > > > > > > Although a value > 0 helps against fragmentation. And when > > > rdiff-backup has failed because it ran out of space, regressing to > > > the previous sane state will need a little free space. > > > > Good points. Should 10GB (1% of 1TB) do it? > > This I don't know. I use this value for large partitions of multimedia data, > because I do not want to waste space (no matter how big the drives are, > mine are always quite full), and performance should not be a big issue > here. I keep the 5% default other partitions, like /home. BTW, you can also > specify fractions like 0.5% if you like. I tend to leave it at default for most partitions. Only the ones serving the fileshare have it set to 0%. But these are on LVM partitions and I can increase their size when needed. > Another thing: Be sure to have enough inodes on the file system, I have run > out of them in the past. Not only once. I usually run out of these during installation time when I use ext2/3 filesystems for the portage tree. That's why I tend to use reiserfs for that. -- Joost