Will reducing the reserved space from 5% in an EXT filesystem bring in fragmentation?

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Issue

  • 5% of the writable space in an EXT filesystem is set as reserved, and applications which run as normal users cannot use this.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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