On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 22:12 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 10/24/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 10/24/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have a 320GB hard drive with a small swap partition, a small boot
> > > partition, and the remainder in the root partition. 'du -sh /' says
> > > 278G and a mkisofs command failed with no space left on device. What
> > > happened to the rest of the gigs?
> >
> > If you formatted with ext3/ext2, 5% is reserved for root, and will not
> > appear in df output. This would account for about 15G. Another 7.3%
> > (or about 23G) is lost due to the fact that linux and df count 1GB as
> > 1073741824 bytes, while manufactures sell drives counting 1GB as
> > 1000000000 bytes.
>
> And just so I can talk to myself in cyberspace just like real life,
> I'll reply to my own posting...
you two?[sic]
> You can use tune2fs -m 0 to change the ext2/ext3 reserved blocks
> percentage to 0 to 'recover' some of that space.
0 may not be such a good idea. Leave at least 50MiB for root... Depends
how you want to run your system I guess... If it's a headless server,
then leave more...
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use
goto either.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
