Reasonable size for "filesystem reserved blocks" for non-OS disks?
- by j-g-faustus
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…