[mythtv-users] Disk Space Way Wrong

[Thomas Boehm]

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...