Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > > If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space > > for the superuser, which is 5% as default: > > tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition > > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation > > you will get. > > I have a question on this. I have a drive that I use for movies and > such. There is nothing OS related on that drive. Would it be safe to > set this to say 1% or even 0?
I'd say 1% is okay. For 0% I'm not sure, I avoid that, but maybe there will be no noticeable difference at all. > Also, it is already set up with LVM and > ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? Sure! Cool, isn't it. Just call lvresize -L +1G /dev/mapper/whatever or something, and then resize2fs /dev/mapper/whatever. > I ask because I don't want to change it and find out my collection is > gone. o_O Of course, backups are always a good idea, but this is pretty safe. I wouldn't worry about it. Wonko