[Gllug] ext3 options

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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Bruce Richardson said:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:23:29PM +0100, salsaman wrote:
>> I guess, since ext3 is a journalling fs, that most of this space is 
>> reserved for the journal. The rest will be for inodes for the filesystem.
> 
> No, it's for root to still have space to work and clean things up.  It
> means that a process running as a normal user can't completely fill
> vital partitions.  Leave it on for / or /var but it's less important for
> others.

It's also beneficial to performance to not fill the filesystem up: ext2
and ext3 are fragmentation-resistant, but not if the filesystem is very
full.

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