On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:04:14PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > If you are interested in retrieving some disk space on this partition, I would > suggest to reduce the percentage of diskspace which may only be allocated by > privileged processes. It is normally 5% of the diskspace of a partition. In > your case this makes ca. 1.8 GB. To me this seems more than ever needed. If > you > reduce this reserve to, e.g., 2% or ca. 700 MB, which seems to me still enough > reserve. And you gain ca. 1.1 GB free space. > For the "ext" family of file systems this can be done on the running system.
The suspense is killing me. Is it a secret? > The 5% value was introduced when storage devices were much much smaller than > today. TBH, I'm good at D/L stuff, not so good at dealing with it until I have to. I could easily free up a few gigs, but the motivation/inspiration isn't strong enough at the moment. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140615222750.GF19921@tal
