If you try to use more than 95% of the storage, performance will generally suffer -- badly. Now, you may not care for certain use cases; if you are doing backups, you might not worry about that much about performance, and you might care a lot more about using the last few bytes of the disk. But changing this default is not something I plan to do upstream.
In addition for the root file system, you really do want to leave the default at 5% so that root can write to critical file systems. And since the vast majority of Ubuntu users are using a single root file system, that implies that the for the vast majority of file systems created by Ubuntu, the default is in fact appropriate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1340448 Title: 5% reservation for root is inappropriate for large disks/arrays To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1340448/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
