From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:54:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120301095441.03de47bb@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120301005941.GA6178@eisen.lan>
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 01:59:41 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> It just means that before the drive gets physically full (which means
> that files will fragment more), it will get logically full earlier.
> This is why there can be expected less fragmentation under extreme
> circumstances (i.e. an almost full FS).
And after three hours of video transcoding, you get a disk full error
instead of a somewhat fragmented file. So far, I've seen no reason to not
use 0 on non-system filesystems. After all, -m 0 only tells ext? to
behave like every other filesystem in this respect.
--
Neil Bothwick
I work with User-Surly Software.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 11:37 [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! trevor donahue
2012-02-28 11:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-28 13:37 ` William Kenworthy
2012-02-28 11:57 ` Mick
2012-02-28 11:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-28 12:24 ` [gentoo-user] " YoYo Siska
2012-02-28 12:50 ` trevor donahue
2012-02-28 13:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-28 13:01 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-28 13:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-28 23:25 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29 0:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 1:05 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29 6:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 9:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 9:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 10:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 11:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 12:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-01 0:59 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-01 9:54 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-02-29 23:59 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-01 0:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-29 0:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2012-02-29 1:01 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29 2:38 ` Dale
2012-02-29 6:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 7:10 ` Dale
2012-02-29 7:49 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-29 9:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-01 1:09 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-01 8:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 9:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 9:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 14:44 ` Dale
2012-02-29 7:43 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-29 13:06 ` Daddy
2012-02-29 14:44 ` Dale
2012-02-28 16:14 ` James Broadhead
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