How many plots fit on a 6Tb drive?

[durin]

If you’re using ext4 file system take a look at this thread:

Ext4 users - remember to reduce reserved blocks!

By default ext4 reserves 5% of your disk for the root user. That made sense in 1999, but that’s insane now. You can run this command (as root) to reduce reserved blocks to around 4GB. On a 16TB ext4 file-system that will free up 795GB (since the default of 5% reserved = 800GB reserved for root!). tune2fs -r 1000000 /dev/<disk-device> This instantly frees up the space. You don’t need to unmount or remount or restart or anything. But first use “lsblk” and “df” commands to identify the ext4 f…