Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:57:39PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> Okay, I'm back and running, and I figured out my problem. ext2 filesystems
> have reserved blocks, though I don't know what they're for. It seems only
> root can access them, although I haven't really checked this. tune2fs can
> lower the number of reserved blocks, but here's my question:
> Why, on a 6.4 GB hard drive, were there 300MB or reserved blocks?
because mke2fs reserves an amount of 5% by default of the partition beeing
formatted for the superuser
> What are they for, and do I really need them?
The answer is in the (first) question :)
JY
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