On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 08:49:37PM +0200, beevis@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Thanks for clarification. So I understand this 5% is reserved in > order to prevent fragmentation. If you want to be pedantic, to allow ext3's anti-fragmentation algorithsm to work more efficiently. It will not (by a long shot!) completely remove fragmentation, but rather, fragmentation will increase as you use last 5-10% of the filesystem. We arbitrarily set 5% as the reserve; UFS (as used in Solaris, BSD, and many other historical Unix systems) set the reserve at 10%. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
