Bryan Duxbury wrote:
Hm, very interesting. Didn't know about that. What's the purpose of the reservation? Just to give root preference or leave wiggle room? If it's not strictly necessary it seems like it would make sense to reduce it to essentially 0%.
AFAIK It is needed for defragmentation / fsck to work properly and your filesystem performance will degrade a lot if you reduce this to 0% (but I'd love to hear otherwise :)
-stephen
