On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:13:40PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've > read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data. > Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root?
If you used ext2/ext3 with mke2fs, the default is 5% reserved. If you put the whole disk in one partition, than that works out to be just about 50G. I don't know what you use the disk for, but it seems a bit silly to have a 1TB disk in just 1 partition for the entire system and waste 50G this way. Even just splitting the root and home partitions would be nice. I mean, all system files, the portage tree, and the distfiles should fit into 50G with no problem, having a 50G reserved space really is silly. Furthermore, if this disk is NOT a system disk, but just one for data... then I ask, what's the point of leaving reserve space for root? W -- Will will will unless Will wills willingly. Maybe Willow ~tiredwired. Sunday Oct. 6. 6:00pm Sortir en Pantoufles: up 743 days, 20:41
