Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space

["Nich Steicke" <nano-tech@netspace.net.au>]

> Reiserfs does the same thing, 5% saved for root.
>
> On 3/15/06, Quag7 <coldfront@frostwarning.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >
>> >         freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained
>> >         more free
>> >         space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround,
>> >         and found
>> >         that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the
>> >         wrong size,
>> >         detales are as follows:
>>
>> I've never used reiserfs and this may be obvious, but I'll throw it out
>> in case its not - this doesn't have anything to do with the "reserved
>> space for the root user," does it?  When I go to create the filesystem
>> for ext3, I have to manually specify not to reserve 5% of the disk space
>> per filesystem for the "root user" - this is, I take it, to keep the
>> system bootable and the file system accessible in the event that, say, a
>> runaway log issue should fill it up.
>>
>> May have nothing to do with your problem but I figure I'd mention it
>> just in case.

Hey, nah - dosnt seem be a problem.

i did manage to fix the filesystem size by using the command
'resize-reiserfs /dev/hdb1' (was susjested by a friend)

thanks for your replies

Nich Steicke
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