shrinking kernel reserve space

[Alexander Skwar (ML)]

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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