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.

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