Re: [expert] How much superuser percentage to reserve??

[Vic]

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... :)
 
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Re: [expert] How much superuser percentage to reserve??

[Bug Hunter]

  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... :)
  

Re: [expert] How much superuser percentage to reserve??

[Marcos Dione]

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... :)

-- 
"No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y
las hace dificil de encender"
"Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes
them difficult to light."
  --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"