Reiserfs does the same thing, 5% saved for root.

On 3/15/06, Quag7 <coldfront@frostwarning.com> wrote:
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>
> >
> >         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.
>
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