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

Jud schrieb:

Hi all, -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?

Interesting question indeed. For my root partition (which is usually about 10GB), 5% seem like a good value. For my home and other data partitions, I set it to 0% after installation. I don't think we have to change the defaults here provided the users actually know that there is reserved space by default.