I have read that people have run into issues where they have completely filled up one of their drives.  I assume this means that it makes sense to leave some room on the drive.  How much?  1GB?  5GB?  Or maybe a couple hundred MB?  I have lots of free space, so I'm not desperate to use every last bit on the drives, but I don't want to leave empty space for no good reason.

 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts...

 

Chris

I have read that people have run into issues where they have completely filled up one of their drives.  I assume this means that it makes sense to leave some room on the drive.  How much?  1GB?  5GB?  Or maybe a couple hundred MB?  I have lots of free space, so I'm not desperate to use every last bit on the drives, but I don't want to leave empty space for no good reason.

 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts...

 

Chris

In the distant past days of unix, 10% of the disk space was reserved for the root user so they could fix anything the user-population would need fixing.  That was with MUCH smaller files and file-systems.  If you are just storing media files, I'd say leave a few gig free... enough to move a few things around if you need.

 

 

 

   

I have read that people have run into issues where they have completely filled up one of their drives.  I assume this means that it makes sense to leave some room on the drive.  How much?  1GB?  5GB?  Or maybe a couple hundred MB?  I have lots of free space, so I'm not desperate to use every last bit on the drives, but I don't want to leave empty space for no good reason.

 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts...

 

Chris

 

Some of the issues are performance when adding new files. timeouts when adding new files via samba while reiserfs is allocating space.

As long as you know this potential occurs, you can work through it.

A few GB (at least the space to repair a file or a few) should be left available.

I generally fill my disks to about 97%-98% which leaves about 30G on a 1tb drive.