shrinking kernel reserve space
Alexander Skwar (ML)
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Thu Mar 15 14:47:55 UTC 2012
Hi.
Am 15.03.2012 15:32, schrieb CJ Tres:
> I've got a 3 TB drive dedicated to backup a data partition and therefore
> I don't need the 5% reserved for the kernel.
It's not "reserved for the kernel".
On ext2/ext3/ext4, it's the default reserved space for the root user.
> I found a command several days ago to shrink that space to a certain
> percentage but cannot remember what it was and evidently can't figure
> what the appropriate search term is to find it again.
> Anyone?
tune2fs -r $number $dev
or
tune2fs -m $percentage $dev
Alexander
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