From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:12:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640610242212v4028c987yb4444fe78b95aee8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640610242210g963753i4fdc5240166f887e@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/24/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> On 10/24/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a 320GB hard drive with a small swap partition, a small boot
> > partition, and the remainder in the root partition. 'du -sh /' says
> > 278G and a mkisofs command failed with no space left on device. What
> > happened to the rest of the gigs?
>
> If you formatted with ext3/ext2, 5% is reserved for root, and will not
> appear in df output. This would account for about 15G. Another 7.3%
> (or about 23G) is lost due to the fact that linux and df count 1GB as
> 1073741824 bytes, while manufactures sell drives counting 1GB as
> 1000000000 bytes.
And just so I can talk to myself in cyberspace just like real life,
I'll reply to my own posting...
You can use tune2fs -m 0 to change the ext2/ext3 reserved blocks
percentage to 0 to 'recover' some of that space.
-Richard
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 4:12 [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB? Grant
2006-10-25 4:36 ` kashani
2006-10-25 4:41 ` Jamie
2006-10-25 4:47 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-25 5:16 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-25 5:28 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-25 5:10 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-25 5:12 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-10-25 5:26 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-25 15:57 ` Grant
2006-10-25 5:15 ` Jeff Rollin
2006-10-25 5:16 ` Jeff Rollin
2006-10-25 5:26 ` Norberto Bensa
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