Reasonable size for "filesystem reserved blocks" for non-OS disks?
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When creating a file system ( mkfs ...) the file system reserves 5% of the space for its own use because, according to man tune2fs:
Reserving some number of filesystem blocks for use by privileged processes is done to avoid filesystem fragmentation, and to allow system daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from writing to the filesystem.
But with large drives 5% is quite a lot of space.
I have 4x1.5 TB drives for data storage (the OS runs on a separate disk), so the default setting would reserve 300 GB, which is an order of magnitude more than the the entire OS drive.
The reserved space can be tweaked, but what is a reasonable size for a data disk? Can I set it to zero, or could that lead to issues with fragmentation?
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