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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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Thanks a lot, very informative. I ran 'tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda3' to |
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crank the reserved space down to 1%. Time to start re-authoring my |
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DVD backups. |
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- Grant |
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