It is a safety margin for the super user. If a process or user fills up the disk drive to capacity, the superuser has a small amount of disk space reserved for use. This disk space allows the superuser room to correct scripts (or generate new ones) to help clean up the hard drive or fix a runaway application. Without this space available, the system could not even let the super user in if any temporary files were created during the login process. On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: > What is this reserving for superuser for? > In other words what is its purpose? > > On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Marcos Dione mewed: > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: > > > > > Hi got a off the wall question here, I am wondering > > > if when formatting a ext2 zip disk, if it is ok to > > > reserve only 1% of it for the "superuser" > > > instead of the default 5%? > > > > I would do 0%... cause you always get out of space in something > > smaller than 75gb... :) > >
