EXT3 Reserve Space

[Muhammad Ammar]

Hi,

Yes, I checked it with both(mkfs.ext3 and tune3fs) on multiple systems but
no effect. I also checked -m with multiple values(0, 1) but no effect

I am using Fedora 13.

Regards,



On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Lakshmipathi.G <lakshmipathi.g at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> Are you sure -m option is not working with mkfs.ext3? Can you verify it
> using tune2fs ?
> If 5% is reserved already, you can use "tune2fs  -m 0 device" to modify it
> and check Reserved blocks count using "tune2fs -l device" command.
>
> HTH
>
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> Cheers,
> Lakshmipathi.G
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>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Muhammad Ammar <mammar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> Whenever an EXT3 partition is created some space is reserved for
>> super-user,  I used the mkfs.ext3 with option -m set to 0, but there is no
>> effect it still reserve the space. How can i set the reserved-space to 0 or
>> calculate the reserved-space in advance?
>>
>> Any suggestion/idea?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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