linux-ext4 - Re: 5% diskspace used for ext4?

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Message-ID: <620f96feb01d15a6a836a1a11715ee8e.squirrel@housecafe.dyndns.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:49:42 +0200 (CEST)
From:	"Christian Kujau" <lists@...dbynature.de>
To:	"Kyle McMartin" <kyle@...artin.ca>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 5% diskspace used for ext4?

On Mon, July 14, 2008 01:45, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 5% of your space is being reserved for root. You can disable this with
> the "-m" argument to mkfs.

Ah, the reserve for root, of course. It did cross my mind that this was
where the 5% came from and if I had read the mkfs printout more carefully
I'd have seen it (thanks, Eric!). I shall use -m to specify a different
value then.

With filesystems getting bigger and bigger, values like "5% of the
available diskspace" are actually becoming more and more visible. Although
they shouldn't, as diskspace gets cheaper and cheaper :-)

Thanks!
Christian.
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