>> It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've >> read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data. >> Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root? > > If you used ext2/ext3 with mke2fs, the default is 5% reserved. If you > put the whole disk in one partition, than that works out to be just > about 50G. I don't know what you use the disk for, but it seems a bit > silly to have a 1TB disk in just 1 partition for the entire system and > waste 50G this way. Even just splitting the root and home partitions > would be nice. I mean, all system files, the portage tree, and the > distfiles should fit into 50G with no problem, having a 50G reserved > space really is silly.
Can I change the amount reserved for root? - Grant
