> Reiserfs does the same thing, 5% saved for root. > > On 3/15/06, Quag7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> > >> > freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained >> > more free >> > space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, >> > and found >> > that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the >> > wrong size, >> > detales are as follows: >> >> I've never used reiserfs and this may be obvious, but I'll throw it out >> in case its not - this doesn't have anything to do with the "reserved >> space for the root user," does it? When I go to create the filesystem >> for ext3, I have to manually specify not to reserve 5% of the disk space >> per filesystem for the "root user" - this is, I take it, to keep the >> system bootable and the file system accessible in the event that, say, a >> runaway log issue should fill it up. >> >> May have nothing to do with your problem but I figure I'd mention it >> just in case.
Hey, nah - dosnt seem be a problem. i did manage to fix the filesystem size by using the command 'resize-reiserfs /dev/hdb1' (was susjested by a friend) thanks for your replies Nich Steicke --------------------- http://narthollis.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
