Beldon Dominello on Thu, 21 Feb 2002 23:50:12 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] really basic file system question


On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Bill Jonas wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:19:45AM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> I've also heard that it starts having trouble once the filesystem gets
> past about 90% full or so.

I've only actually heard that said of ReiserFS (and then at 85%).  Especially 
since ext2/3 reserve 5% for root use only (by default), it's probably not a 
good idea to run that low anyway.

My little laptop here is running ext3 at about 85% full with no ill effects 
observed.

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