On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, 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.
There is a possibility that extX uses that reserved space to ensure
it's anti-fragmentation allocation policies can work, even when the
disk is near full.
Don't know for sure though.
regards,
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