disk usage monitor figures don't add up?

[Paul Howarth]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> In this case its a huge gotcha of over 10GB.   Thats more like 13%. 
> Is there any way to reduce this to a fixed figure of say 500 megs or
> so since amanda doesn't run as root, but suid root for much of what it
> does? 
> 
> Or is it time to revisit the srcs for du & df & add a _max_reserved?

The reserved blocks are a function of the filesystem, not of du and/or df; see 
"man tune2fs" for adjustments you can make on ext2 and ext3 filesystems.

Paul.