On Mon, October 15, 2007 7:26 pm, Don Gould wrote: > Can any one provide a link to a good explination of this reserved blocks > issue? > > Why do you reserve blocks? > > Cheers Don
They are reserved for root only to use in emergency situations, so that root has some disk space. 5% is allocated by default when running mke2fs - which was probably appropriate for smaller partitions. But it is pretty excessive on a 350G partition. -- Nick Rout
