Bug 182528

Summary: Do not reserve filesystem blocks on /home and possibly other partitions
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: rawhideKeywords: FutureFeature
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Description Behdad Esfahbod 2006-02-23 01:37:29 UTC 
By default ext2 and ext3 filesystems reserve %5.  While this is useful for /,
/tmp, and /var, this wastes precious harddisk space for /home, and since /home
is probably the biggest partition users create, not reserving %5 on /home, or
reserving %1 returns something like 2GB of harddisk space that is unusable
otherwise...
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-02-23 01:47:15 UTC 
The reservation isn't there solely for the purposes of not filling up the disk.
 ext[23] also needs that reserved space to avoid particularly bad fragmentation.
Comment 2 Ra P. 2006-02-23 02:12:11 UTC 
Why must your preference be the default? I'm it has a useful purpose.