On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Jud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
