> Ofcourse you realize that setting -m to 1 or worse, 0, will result
> in a badly fragmented disk when it fills up and really bad performance.
>
> The reason that 5% of disk space is reserved is to always have some
> room left. The ext2 allocation algorithm needs this to prevent fragmentation.
I think the main reason is to let the sysadmin to fix the system in case
of problem and to prevent users from filling all the free space. A lot
of utilities need free space for temporary files. How do you edit a conf
file if there is no room ?
> The -b 4096 is good advice though, it should be the default on partions
> bigger than 100 MB or so. -i 16384 also isn't bad if you don't plan on
> storing lots (and that is _lots_) of small files.
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