shrinking kernel reserve space

Alexander Skwar alexanders.mailinglists+nospam at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 16:14:12 UTC 2012


Hi

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 17:08, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> note that it also makes sure that you can boot your system in recovery
> mode (as root) once you completely ran out of diskspace. so while 5% of
> 3TB is a pretty nonsense amount, you should still not completely set it
> to zero as a safety net for the recovery mode.

Well, for a DATA disk/filesystem, I would set it to 0. For the root filesystem,
I still leave it at 5% for the reasons you mentioned.

BR,
Alexander
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