The default I think is to reserved 5% of the size of the filesystem for
root. Look at the -m on the mkfs. Carlos :-)
Saying goes: Great minds think alike - I say: Great minds think for
themselves!
Carlos A. Ordonez
IBM Corporation
Server Consolidation
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> The df command shows /dev/dasdb1 as having 6983168 1K blocks. But it
also
> shows 846212 used, and 5776348 available. 846212+5776348=6622560.
> Where did 6983168-6622560=360608 blocks go to? I assume it is filesystem
> overhead, but 360MB of filesystem overhead seems a little high???
The default behaviour is to reserve part of the disk for root. See man
tune2fs. In terms of general overheads an ext3 file system has a static
allocation for bitmaps, superblocks and inode blocks. That can make it look
high when empty compared to a file system which dynamically allocates all
of
its metadata.
