[mythtv-users] Disk Space Way Wrong

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Apr 19 15:47:03 UTC 2012


On 4/19/2012 11:35, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> Trey Thompson wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Thomas Boehm wrote:
>>      What does "du --max-depth 1 /mount_point" say?
>>
>>      You can change the amount of the reserved space with tune2fs.
>>
>>
>> 1036304/media/sata1/mythtv
>> 1036308/media/sata1
>>
>> I don't need the space, and I'd hate to mess with the default reserved
>> space.  I was really just curious.
>> Thanks for the info.
> If this filesystem is only used for data, it's save to set the reserved
> space to 0. Why wasting 124 GB?

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.


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