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 1S2XwT-000100-Ty for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:02:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 187E4E06B4; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA03E06B4 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-170-179.netcologne.de [78.35.170.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83558DC04C for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:01:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:01:41 +0100 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! Message-ID: <20120229020141.0417c547@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <4F4D75F5.20603@gmail.com> References: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> <4F4D75F5.20603@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 17b8ceea-1c5f-45f3-96d0-533fa35a12a8 X-Archives-Hash: 02a4940f59d3ca1da54c3859adf6dc5c Dale writes: > 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. > > I have a question on this. I have a drive that I use for movies and > such. There is nothing OS related on that drive. Would it be safe to > set this to say 1% or even 0? I'd say 1% is okay. For 0% I'm not sure, I avoid that, but maybe there will be no noticeable difference at all. > Also, it is already set up with LVM and > ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? Sure! Cool, isn't it. Just call lvresize -L +1G /dev/mapper/whatever or something, and then resize2fs /dev/mapper/whatever. > I ask because I don't want to change it and find out my collection is > gone. o_O Of course, backups are always a good idea, but this is pretty safe. I wouldn't worry about it. Wonko