From: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) Subject: Re: df and the ext2 filesystem Date: 1 Apr 1993 06:56:39 GMT
> I also lost 6M of space after creating a 101M partition using mke2fs(ver 2c).
> I'm running 99pl7a kernel.
> --
> Joe C. Hager
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the ext2fs (like
other *nix systems) save up to 10% of the file system in reserve? In fact,
I don't remember where I read this, but by telling mke2fs to not reserve
that space can cause the speed of the file system to be drastically reduced.
Don't know if that's true or not, maybe the maintainer of the code for
ext2fs can correct us.
albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu