Am 11.12.2011 21:09, schrieb John Wendel: > On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> I have not used fdisk for a LOOOONG time, and could not remember the >> commands, but -l would probably provide a >> list of what was there, so I did that. 'm' for listing the options. Menu? >> >> Anyway, thanks, o did the trick, I now have a 1Gb EXT4 partition. Thing is, >> after the formatting as EXT4, 50Gb >> is used with nothing on the disk! >> > > So, what options did you use when you ran mke2fs? By default 5% of the disk > is "reserved for root", > totally stupid default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to recover this space.
agreed that the default fo 5% is simply stupid these days there shoud be used reserved blocks (-r) because in days of volumes with 1,2,4, and > 5 TB 5% is a large amount but well, it is a single command to configure this
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