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Re: Ext2



excerpt from man tune2fs:
       -m reserved-blocks-percentage
              adjust  the reserved blocks percentage on the given
              device.
and, heh,
       Never use tune2fs on a read/write  mounted  filesystem  to
       change parameters!


On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Miki Shapiro wrote:

> > This is set as option to mke2fs:
> >      -m reserved-blocks-percentage
> 
> is there any way to change it to 0 WITHOUT razing the whole 8 Gigz?
> or is this value somehow hardcoded into the partition and to change it
> you'd need to reformat the whole thing?
> 
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