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

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