Appropos my "laughably small" disk space comment, here's a snippet from mkfs.ext4: -m reserved-blocks-percentage Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from writing to the filesystem. The default percentage is 5%. I have several 12 TB disks scattered about my house. 5% of 12TB is 600GB. I'm pretty confident that all the spinning (no, tapes aren't spinning) storage at all of Bell Labs in 1975 was less than the reserved space for one of my disks. FWIW, I set "-m 0" for honker disks. -- jpl