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Old 11-30-2010, 09:07 AM   #1
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Question Reserved blocks percentage for a partition without OS


Is it true that I can safely set reserved blocks percentage to 0% on some ext4 partition which contains only my personal data but no OS files?
 
Old 11-30-2010, 09:26 AM   #2
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I have done it, and have no problems with that.
 
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