won't this allow the partition to become fragmented?
On 1/4/08, Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The other thing to keep in mind is that the reserved blocks are reserved > for root, which means that if its a filesystem primarily written to by > root, the reserve does no good because root can fill it 100% anyway. > > Kevin > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zavodsky, Daniel > (GE Money) > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:56 PM > To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list > Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] about ext3 tunable parameters > (mount-countandreserved blocks) > > Hello, > I am disabling forced e2fsck on ext3 file systems everywhere. As > to reserved blocks percentage, 5% is the default so there is no need to > specify this option if you want this setting. I would suggest lowering > this value on big file systems (on one TB FS you get 50 GB less this > way... which is not negligible) - you always have to ask yourself "What > will happen if the space on this file system runs out?". For example on > /var you would use slightly more reserved blocks and on /home you could > disable the feature entirely. > > Regards, > Daniel > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Jolle > "sjolle" > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [rhelv5-list] about ext3 tunable parameters (mount-count > andreserved blocks) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Red Hat Users > > We modify the following ext3 file system parameters: > > - - reserved-blocks-percentage = 5% > - - never e2fsck at x mount-counts > > Whats the risk associated with this settings? Is this a good idea? > > cheers > Simon > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHfSPjEMN/lNE/wrwRAn1bAJ9J8s+YiCyD7pm/HdXj4ptGwUbD4QCfbneS > vBM/J1QkNdCaJW8IT4Hh0ak= > =mJ8o > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >
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