From: michael@jarthur.claremont.edu (Michael Elkins) Subject: Re: df and the ext2 filesystem Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 06:22:14 GMT
In article <733611869snz@hobbes.demon.co.uk> jchager@hobbes.demon.co.uk writes:
>In article <WPWOOD.93Mar31111703@darkwing.austin.ibm.com> wpwood@austin.ibm.com writes:
>>So it looks like I'm missing about 5M worth of space. Any ideas?
>>
>I also lost 6M of space after creating a 101M partition using mke2fs(ver 2c).
>I'm running 99pl7a kernel.
Perhaps this is because ext2fs reserves ~5% of the diskspace for root? Can
anyone verify this?
At any rate, if you don't want to reserve that space, just add a "-m 0" to your
mke2fs options.
me