From: kubla@mogli.uni-mainz.de (Dominik Kubla) Subject: Re: df and the ext2 filesystem Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 17:39:28 GMT
In article <1pe3n7INNsa6@uwm.edu>, albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) writes:
"> "
"> "> 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,
^^^^
actually the default is 5%!
but there is an option for mke2fs to change
this ...
"> "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
"> "
Dominik
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