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?
I think it's so that, when the disk is full, root processes don't fail, only user processes. So you don't lose, e.g., syslog. With modern disks, 5% is too much, especially for volumes that are only used for user data. You can safely set this to 1%.
Doug
