External drive partitioning problems

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.12.2011 21:25, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
> On 12/11/2011 03:13 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> agreed that the default fo 5% is simply stupid these days
>> there shoud be used reserved blocks (-r) because in days
>> of volumes with 1,2,4, and>  5 TB 5% is a large amount
>>
>> but well, it is a single command to configure this
> 
> I ASSuME that I can still tune after putting some data on the drive?
> 
> I got this drive to replace a failing drive, and as soon as I got the drive formated, I started syncing the drives
> while I still can...

tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1

this works even if the partition is mounted
normally you should use tune2fs unmounted
but this is one of a bundle of options where this is not needed


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