Filesystem size and free space

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 14 11:47:54 PST 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 01:52:41PM +0200, Andrei Kolu wrote:
> So, I can say bye-bye to 50GB of space due to UFS filesystem features?  
> IIRC then FreeBSD 4.x got 10% root reservation per filesystem and these  
> days we got 1000 times bigger hard drives, do we need so much  
> reservation (8% now I presume)?

man tunefs(8), see -m flag.

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