Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:

> > > 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.  
> 
> I read this often, and to me it seems to make sense. When a file system
> is nearly full, writing a last big file will make the file being
> cluttered along all those tiny places where some free space is still
> left. And this probably already happens to some extent before the
> filesystem is completely full. 

But if you set m > 0, the filesystem will become full sooner, so
fragmentation will begin sooner (for non-root processes). 


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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