shrinking space used by root user [was:shrinking kernel reserve space]

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:48 PM, CJ Tres <ctres at grics.net> wrote:

> On 03/15/2012 11:18 AM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Alexander Skwar
>> <alexanders.mailinglists+**nospam at gmail.com<alexanders.mailinglists%2Bnospam at gmail.com>
>> <mailto:alexanders.**mailinglists%2Bnospam at gmail.**com<alexanders.mailinglists%252Bnospam at gmail.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi
>>
>>    On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 17:08, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com
>>    <mailto:ogra at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>>
>
>  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%.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> W. Scott Lockwood
>>
>>
> So even for a data partition 0% is not a good idea?
>

Just because I can't think of a case where it would be a problem, doesn't
mean it couldn't somehow be a problem...

-- 
Regards,
W. Scott Lockwood
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