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[ILUG] Missing space

[ILUG] Missing space

Philip Trickett (List) phil-ml at techworks.ie
Fri Mar 3 13:24:50 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 13:13 +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:

> Doh! (Niall slaps forehead, Homer style) I haven't created an ext2 
> filesystem with other than -m 0 since forever, basically. I setup the 
> standby box, but I didn't setup the primary box - Dell did that, so it 
> was defaults all the way.
> 
> Damn and fiddlesticks. Ah well, at least the mystery is resolved, and 
> if it becomes drastic, a bootable CD and tune2fs will save the day.
> 
> 
Apparently, you might not want to set the reserved space to zero, as
some of it is used for making sure that fragmentation does not become a
problem. (Hey, I saw it linked off /. so it must be true...)

> 
> Niall
> 

Phil




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