[Q] Where does all the space go?
kwijibo at zianet.com
kwijibo at zianet.com
Thu May 19 17:55:02 UTC 2005
Investigate the -m option of mkfs.ext2/3 or tune2fs.
The default is 5%.
Maurice Volaski wrote:
> I created a filesystem as follows:
>
> mke2fs -j -O dir_index -O sparse_super -T largefile /dev/drbd/6
>
> Here's the the output from df
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%
> /dev/drbd/6 475G 33M 452G 1%
>
> It seems that ext3 has taken 23 GB, which is about 5% of the total disk
> size, for itself. Is that right?
>
> If that is, indeed, the case, why does df just list 33M as being used?
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