Re: 5% diskspace used for ext4?

["Christian Kujau" <lists@nerdbynature.de>]

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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