Allegedly, on or about 23 November 2018, Richard Shaw sent: > I did a little research last time (I believe it was you) it was > mentioned and while there are a lot of opinions the google consensus > I found was that they already reserve some space from the factory but > that reserving an additional 15% was sufficient to allow the wear > leveling algorithms to work efficiently. Isn't wear levelling just going to reduce the drive capacity from you anyway? Whether it takes it from your pre-allocated space or unallocated left-overs. If so, then the easiest approach, I would have thought, was to set a low-value "drive is getting too full" user warning. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. The weekly life-cycle of the electronics enthusiast: Monday: Get an idea, and draft it out. Tuesday: Go and buy the parts. Wednesday: Solder the components together. Thursday: Build the casing and install the electronics. Friday: Start getting it to work and fine tuning. Saturday: Neatly install the finished product and use it for an hour. Sunday: Watch smoke escape when you turn it on, prepare shopping list for new parts to buy, tomorrow. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx