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* Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!
  @ 2012-03-01  9:54 99%                   ` Neil Bothwick
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From: Neil Bothwick @ 2012-03-01  9:54 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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2012-02-28 11:37     [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! trevor donahue
2012-02-28 13:01     ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-28 13:27       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-28 23:25         ` Alex Schuster
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 99%                   ` Neil Bothwick

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