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Dumb idea. Read the man page for tunefs. The file system has some thing called min free which does the same thing. However this does not interfer with wear
by davidmoffatt 6y ago
Dumb idea. Read the man page for tunefs. The file system has some thing called min free which does the same thing. However this does not interfer with wear leveling. Dummy data does.
- 404mm 6y agoNot commenting on whether OPs idea is sound or not, however tunefs implies the now less and less used ext4 (many distros are switching to XFS or btrfs :-/). On another note, that limit applies to non-privileged processes only. Some crap running as root will just fill up the disk too.