Re: Linux and superblocks

In article <cistron.LNBBIBDBFFCDPLBLLLHFKENDHDAA.juha@saarinen.org>,
Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> wrote:
>Mike,
>
>%-> Note that the reason that that 5% is reserved is that ext2 really
>%-> likes to have some space left for its anti-fragmentation algorithm.
>%-> Yes, you can set it to 0%, but over time performance will suffer badly.
>
>Does this apply to any given volume size? I mean, is it true of say, a 500MB
>volume as well as a 5GB volume?

Yes.

>5% would be quite a lot of "wasted" space in
>the latter case.

Why? It's only 5% ;)

Mike.

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