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 1Qtn2R-0007q1-It for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:48:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AFFC21C0E9; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:48:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f171.google.com (mail-ey0-f171.google.com [209.85.215.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7443821C020 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg24 with SMTP id 24so725654eyg.16 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:47:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=rHfHq6GBEEU0pWdBPn8DoN74dPNtcvolUVZKSU8p4Bg=; b=AtGgo4hSNlk5OgCTrd8yjchen/R2ngMSLVUGT6sbFYuc6pFypoa8Dtnphub5xTH14I EJajPRu56ZuL/bGKGfnJK4l39+s7u2n7v437gtCy0iRLvHo+LjY8UKzoQSI3noq0lRp1 Mt+G4uujMCl+pZNHHyN+YkbIkzzfVEYL1lJn8= 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 Received: by 10.14.146.15 with SMTP id q15mr534749eej.172.1313614031659; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:47:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.100.140 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:47:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5710175.Zsoj7M7BTh@weird> References: <2647420.MP29V8M10C@eve> <5710175.Zsoj7M7BTh@weird> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:47:11 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull? From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6504ec1d01ca5d3294488f667475ba22 >> > Can I reserve 0% for root on my USB hard drive which is only used for >> > backups and does not contain an OS? >> >> Yes: >> >> mke2fs -m 0 /dev/usb-drive > > Although a value > 0 helps against fragmentation. And when rdiff-backup has > failed because it ran out of space, regressing to the previous sane state > will need a little free space. Good points. Should 10GB (1% of 1TB) do it? - Grant