[Gllug] ext3 options

[Bruce Richardson]

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.

-- 
Bruce

What would Edward Woodward do?
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