On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, eric pareja wrote:
..
> You'll note that by default, mke2fs reserves about 5% of your filesystem
> space. You can lower this value if you wish at creation time, or use
> tune2fs to modify an ext2 filesystem's other values. Checking the man page
> for tune2fs, you'll see that you can modify reserved blocks by percentage
> or by a specific count.

If you use ReiserFS, 32MB is reserved for the journal. I think the block
size is 4KB. The normal mount procedure uses packed tails, so unlike ext2
the excess space per block is not wasted.



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