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 1S2Xk8-0007Sj-CY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:50:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E133BE0692; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D063E07AE for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:48:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggni4 with SMTP id i4so2241693ggn.40 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:48:58 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.182.2 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.236.182.2; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.182.2 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rdalek1967@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=rdalek1967@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.236.182.2]) by 10.236.182.2 with SMTP id n2mr32451616yhm.11.1330476538129 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:48:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7ac5RwC6ssLXQwZ/X4KmqtpKEadYJbwlZCdrM0ifagM=; b=tYgZ6/LjmZhtA+MBhfYk/vc44fUBQMkvJtF17s5TEknp/ZqHTV1ORIQ/CKYSt4r+GE Yb2TnE+wSAHAN8iyTOCmCr9Jomv0WSOp7xW2e37WeL5ZZEwdUTsO9sYMNFdg+VRWEDzZ Jl4p1MICe8FtH+InnUp3LWEEaFqU4eKUoVmiE= Received: by 10.236.182.2 with SMTP id n2mr24605463yhm.11.1330476538084; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:48:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-122-135.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.122.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b6sm31715958anc.3.2012.02.28.16.48.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:48:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F4D75F5.20603@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:48:53 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120218 Firefox/10.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.7.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! References: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: afbb82d4-89c5-4265-8add-9e9787834609 X-Archives-Hash: 00417fce45bd0b7ed6317ed014dd45f8 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? Also, it is already set up with LVM and ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? I ask because I don't want to change it and find out my collection is gone. o_O Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"