External drive partitioning problems

[Tim]

On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 12:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
> By default 5% of the disk is "reserved for root", totally stupid
> default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to recover this space.

That rather depends on what you're putting on the drive (e.g. whopping
huge video editing files), and whether you do need to make very sure
that you leave enough space to fix up a problem with them.  It's no fun
trying to sort out a drive that's 99% full.  Though, yes, 5% probably is
too much.

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