That's a dumb idea? Iirc some filesystems allow you to reserve a percentage of blocks for this particular use case (recovery by root). Ext2/3 for sure, ext4 p

That's a dumb idea? Iirc some filesystems allow you to reserve a percentage of blocks for this particular use case (recovery by root). Ext2/3 for sure, ext4 probably too. Not sure you can do that on linode on the rootfs, since the filesystem is mounted, tho.