Re: Linux and superblocks

In article <cistron.LNBBIBDBFFCDPLBLLLHFEELNHDAA.juha@saarinen.org>,
Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> wrote:
>Yes, it is.
>
>man mke2fs:
>
> -m reserved-blocks-percentage
> Specify the percentage of reserved blocks for the super-
> user. This value defaults to 5%.

Note that the reason that that 5% is reserved is that ext2 really
likes to have some space left for its anti-fragmentation algorithm.
Yes, you can set it to 0%, but over time performance will suffer badly.

Mike.

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