From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FJeSE-0002nT-U0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:26:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2FMMxR1021858; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:22:59 GMT Received: from nano-tech.ath.cx (220-253-117-103.SA.netspace.net.au [220.253.117.103]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2FME1Vc019190 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:14:03 GMT Received: from mail.nano-tech.ath.cx (nano-tech.ath.cx [127.0.0.1]) by nano-tech.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE2E30E9A for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:44:19 +1030 (CST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user nano-tech) by mail.nano-tech.ath.cx with HTTP; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:44:20 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <37831.127.0.0.1.1142460860.squirrel@mail.nano-tech.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <8146fc8a0603150837y6f5261f5s85c91730c290d34b@mail.gmail.com> References: <52211.127.0.0.1.1142333493.squirrel@mail.nano-tech.ath.cx> <8146fc8a0603150758r6784b37fh3ba45356a3877c2d@mail.gmail.com> <1142439501.10948.8.camel@antarctica> <8146fc8a0603150837y6f5261f5s85c91730c290d34b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:44:20 +1030 (CST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space From: "Nich Steicke" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Archives-Salt: 458621f2-3037-42b1-a09d-9a1b2303757a X-Archives-Hash: 2ab908f1ae3493243df609d4d5a11dba > Reiserfs does the same thing, 5% saved for root. > > On 3/15/06, Quag7 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 --------------------- http://narthollis.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list