On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:57:54 -0500 "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Jud <jud@judfilm.net> wrote:
Hi all,
Now that the Installer is of interest again, I wanted to ask if this idea could make a better sane default for the Installer's /etc/mke2fs.conf - Meaning when you create and format ext2/3/4 (any others?) partitions.
-m [reserved-blocks-percentage] "Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from writing to the filesystem. The default percentage is 5%."
Now it seems this reserved space is unavailable to users and now that Hard Drives are massive, this 5% is alot of space.
Would the option -m1 or even -m0 be a better sane default?
or maybe even user defined?
Please put this in the bug tracker
Done. FS#11760 - mke2fs.conf Reserved Blocks Percentage http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11760