RE: File system overhead
Yes I was logged in as root.
Tony Heal
Pace Systems Group, Inc.
800-624-5999
theal@pace2020.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Lubos Vrbka [mailto:lubos.vrbka@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:42 AM
To: theal@pace2020.com
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: File system overhead
> If you look at the output of df -h you will see that the size of the
> partition is 219GB there is only 168MB in this partition yet there is only
> 208GB left. This is a new server and that partition has only had things
> added to it, nothing has ever been removed.
>
> By my calculations there should be 218.8GB left, so if not the rest must
be
> filesystem overhead. 5 percent seems to be a bit much, but as long as I
can
> explain it I may be able to live with this. That is why I want a link to a
> site that could explain the overhead of the ext3 filesystem.
did you execute the df command as root? if not, it might report less
free space. there is a reserved space (5% is default for ext2/3, iirc,
however you can set it up differently) that is available only for
root... and since you report 5% in your case...
regards,
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Lubos
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