[mythtv-users] Disk Space Way Wrong

[Raymond Wagner]

On 4/19/2012 12:06, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> Traditionally, filesystems reserve 5-10% of the total space as a
>> mechanism to prevent fragmentation.  With today's gigantic disks and
>> arrays, that could be a bit excessive, however setting it to zero is a
>> very bad idea.
> Not if you use xfs, set the "minimum free space" and run "xfs_db -rc
> frag ..." every night ;-)
>
> Ok, setting the reserved space to 1% on an ext4 filesystem should do...

I know at least for UFS on FreeBSD, dropping the reserved space below 8% 
would cause the filesystem to switch strategies to one that was more 
space efficient, but noticeably slower.