On 1/19/06, Tony Heal <theal@pace2020.com> wrote: > > anyone have a good link that explains why/what the ext3 overhead is. I have > a partition that looks like it has 8GB taken up by the OS and I need to > explain this. > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda9 219G 168M 208G 1% /opt Check out: http://lwn.net/Articles/81357/