shrinking kernel reserve space

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Alexander Skwar <
alexanders.mailinglists+nospam at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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With disks as big as they are these days, leaving 1% in case you need it
isn't a bad idea at all, really. On large enough disks, this can even give
you all the space you need reserved for root, though I tend to stick with
5%.

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Regards,
W. Scott Lockwood
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