From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christian Kujau" Subject: Re: 5% diskspace used for ext4? Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:49:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <620f96feb01d15a6a836a1a11715ee8e.squirrel@housecafe.dyndns.org> References: <20080713234541.GA4633@phobos.i.cabal.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Kyle McMartin" Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:56176 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756311AbYGNJtu (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:49:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080713234541.GA4633@phobos.i.cabal.ca> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, July 14, 2008 01:45, Kyle McMartin wrote: > 5% of your space is being reserved for root. You can disable this with > the "-m" argument to mkfs. Ah, the reserve for root, of course. It did cross my mind that this was where the 5% came from and if I had read the mkfs printout more carefully I'd have seen it (thanks, Eric!). I shall use -m to specify a different value then. With filesystems getting bigger and bigger, values like "5% of the available diskspace" are actually becoming more and more visible. Although they shouldn't, as diskspace gets cheaper and cheaper :-) Thanks! Christian. -- BOFH excuse #442: Trojan horse ran out of hay