Re: [opensuse] Percentage of blocks reserved for root on ext3 formatted partitions

Bob Williams pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

In Yast Partitioner, when formatting a partition as ext3, there is an option described as 'Percentage of blocks reserved for root'. The default value is 'auto' = 5%

What does this mean? Is 5% of the partition not available to an ordinary user?

Bob

That is correct. The 5% is reserved for logs that get too big or root, more correctly so root can log in and create his login temp files while working to free up space. This number can be changed but never change it to 0. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org