Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 14, 2003 04:35 PM
The reserverd blocks are there for a reason. The reason is avoiding fragmentation. Ext2/ext3 don't fragment much if they do not get full. The reserved percentage keeps normal users from making the filesystem full so it helps against fragmentation. So you don't need any defragmentation at all in practice (in 95%+ cases).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 14, 2003 04:35 PM#