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 1S2fj3-0003DD-Jc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:21:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D742E0916; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:21:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C358E0916 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:20:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so2023231wer.40 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.180.99.164 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.99.164; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.180.99.164 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.99.164]) by 10.180.99.164 with SMTP id er4mr10294219wib.11.1330507215446 (num_hops = 1); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:20:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dQkrXdbvF10WFHywDw3kvIBhFporNm1/8qoTbg03Dy8=; b=VgZaWahhJJQGPfYt+X87pQ/KtG3mLeSHId3YvA/TzMlGRdhm0P0PoZIWTuOettLyUb Dop2N7Bxer0p2UqKLuP9giJa0C+cqkKvIWAJcsB6KmXiRSQZ2yXL8kpEq3ClJYIGCoGP RR+nnM/EI+uxRRTsEHMXCJoEpQfCcvN6JPp4g= Received: by 10.180.99.164 with SMTP id er4mr8285049wib.11.1330507215408; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bg3sm34038225wib.10.2012.02.29.01.20.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:20:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:19:56 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! Message-ID: <20120229111956.21612f0d@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4F4D8F95.7050307@gmail.com> References: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> <4F4D75F5.20603@gmail.com> <20120229020141.0417c547@weird.wonkology.org> <4F4D8F95.7050307@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions 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: 7eaaab47-4b7e-4e71-8e6e-33ad2a468d81 X-Archives-Hash: d778bb1539f49b7fe5a57da7c149f488 On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600 Dale wrote: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > > > >> 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 was talking about the command to change the superuser reserves. I > know how to make LVM bigger but wanted to make sure this can be run > even when there is data on there. Basically, can I run: > > tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 > > Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that > then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy. They don't interfere with each other. LVM and the size of the filesystem is one thing. Reserved space is something else, completely unrelated. > > > > Wonko > > > > > > Dale > > :-) :-) > -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com