Re: The ext3 partition shrank after the formatting
Quoting JEMF <jemf@gabcmt.eb.mil.br>:
> I have a 385 MB partition. After the format with ext3, the df command
> show "Size 361M". Why?
>
ext3 is a journaling filesystem. The space is used for the journal. If you
do not want to give up so much space, reformat with a smaller filesystem block
size and then reduce the size of the journal to the minumum (1 MB journal for
1 k block size, 4 MB journal for 4 k block size).
-Roberto
--
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
Reply to: