From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 5% diskspace used for ext4?
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:45:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080713234541.GA4633@phobos.i.cabal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0807140054000.4469@sheep.housecafe.de>
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:04:20AM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suspect this being a FAQ already, but I could not find[0] it:
> does ext4 really use 5% of available space for internal housekeeping?
> After formatting and mounting a ~917GB partition I see:
>
5% of your space is being reserved for root. You can disable this with
the "-m" argument to mkfs.
regards, Kyle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-13 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-13 23:04 5% diskspace used for ext4? Christian Kujau
2008-07-13 23:41 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-13 23:45 ` Kyle McMartin [this message]
2008-07-14 9:49 ` Christian Kujau
2008-07-14 11:47 ` Theodore Tso
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