Re: Hard drives breaking (heat?)

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From: Nix
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:00

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Harry Broomhall <harry.broomhall@uk.easynet.net> writes:

>     This is quite common these days.  Usualy about 10% is 'reserved'
> on a slice.  Only root can write to that part, and the % figure is
> taken as relative to the reduced size.
> 
>      The reason is that when users fill up a slice the admin can sort
> things out and have some room to manoever because of the protected
> area.

... and also that most filesystems prefer to have some free space at all
times; having none *greatly* increases file fragmentation.

(For ext2fs the magic number is just less than 5%; for FFS closer to
10%.)

-- 
`The phrase `causes storage to be reserved', doesn't mean that it causes
 storage to be reserved.  This is a fundamental misunderstanding of
 Standardeze.' --- Mike Stump on the GCC list

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Subject: Re: Hard drives breaking (heat?)
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