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 1S2N7I-0007AJ-Av for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:29:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BB69E09A6; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:28:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F434E097B for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (unknown [192.168.1.178]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C2B4180767 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:27:13 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:27:12 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! Message-ID: <20120228132712.6df1ca07@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> References: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs29 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/2ylIE2Rqncz19a9C.dP4M0o"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ed665632-51af-4479-b5c2-66e25dad81f6 X-Archives-Hash: 603b36ec86e436671de959d03336c357 --Sig_/2ylIE2Rqncz19a9C.dP4M0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space > for the superuser, which is 5% as default: > tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation > you will get. Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the need for fragmentation. I routinely use 0 on non-system filesystems. --=20 Neil Bothwick The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem. --Sig_/2ylIE2Rqncz19a9C.dP4M0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9M1jAACgkQum4al0N1GQO57ACgx+StmMbmc+dFQd0mwenvl5kI eaAAniG8kTrYY0lyNSu+nkqm4ugCNyop =YfM1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/2ylIE2Rqncz19a9C.dP4M0o--