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
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
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
