From 029de632771fec8e06a29a310a46e8f10670f1a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:47:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] mke2fs.8.in: Add an explanation about why reserved blocks in a filesystem is a good thing. --- misc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ misc/mke2fs.8.in | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog index 0a4191b..0ef524b 100644 --- a/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-10-08 Theodore Ts'o + + * mke2fs.8.in: Add an explanation about why reserved blocks in a + filesystem is a good thing. + 2004-09-28 Theodore Ts'o * badblocks.8.in: Document the default block size. (Addresses diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in index 89bf3f1..8c21f29 100644 --- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in +++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in @@ -269,7 +269,12 @@ Set the volume label for the filesystem. .TP .BI \-m " reserved-blocks-percentage" Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for -the super-user. This value defaults to 5%. +the super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned +daemons, such as +.BR syslogd (8), +to continue to function correctly after non-privileged processes are +prevented from writing to the filesystem. The default percentage +is 5%. .TP .B \-M Set the last mounted directory for the filesystem. This might be useful -- 1.8.3.1