On Sunday 21 September 2008 17:55:56 Ken Schneider wrote:
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.
That's very interesting. On a 750GB disc, the amount allocated to root is therefore 37.5GB, which seems a mighty big log file. Or does it function as a kind of local swapfile if the disc gets too full? Similar to Windows defragmenter needing 15% freespace. Do you think 1% (equivalent to 7.5GB in my example above) would be sufficient? I'm talking about an external SATA drive that's used for backups and archives. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.0, Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default, KDE 4.1.1 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org