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On 10/24/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 10/24/06, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I have a 320GB hard drive with a small swap partition, a small boot |
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> > partition, and the remainder in the root partition. 'du -sh /' says |
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> > 278G and a mkisofs command failed with no space left on device. What |
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> > happened to the rest of the gigs? |
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> If you formatted with ext3/ext2, 5% is reserved for root, and will not |
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> appear in df output. This would account for about 15G. Another 7.3% |
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> (or about 23G) is lost due to the fact that linux and df count 1GB as |
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> 1073741824 bytes, while manufactures sell drives counting 1GB as |
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> 1000000000 bytes. |
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And just so I can talk to myself in cyberspace just like real life, |
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I'll reply to my own posting... |
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You can use tune2fs -m 0 to change the ext2/ext3 reserved blocks |
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percentage to 0 to 'recover' some of that space. |
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-Richard |
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