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Gigahorse 3.0 Farming Series - Part 4: Re-gain 5% storage space

Before you start plotting, you need to understand how storage work. When you format your hard drive in EXT4 format, 5% of the space is reserved. That would mean if you are using an 8TB drive you are unable to store plots on 400GB. In my case with C31 plots that would mean an extra 9 plots. If you are using 16TB drive, you are losing 800GB or 19 C31 plots. This can make a significant difference on your farming rewards.

For Chia farmers, the reserved space is not needed as we will not be writing on our drives. I set my reserve space to ZERO.

DISCLAIMER: This is my first time doing it and I got the info from ChatGPT

Here's how to do it.

Find your Device Name

Run the following command with your device name

sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda1

You should get an output like the following:

That's it, and now we can start plotting.

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