> > 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 can use tune2fs -m 0 to change the ext2/ext3 reserved blocks
percentage to 0 to 'recover' some of that space.
-Richard
Thanks a lot, very informative. I ran 'tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda3' to
crank the reserved space down to 1%. Time to start re-authoring my
DVD backups.
- Grant
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