On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 09:45, Raphael Petitjean wrote: > Why we have lost 26 MB ?
6MB appears to have gone, well, I don't know where; formatting probably reduced the capacity somewhat. The 17M in use is mostly your ext3 journal, and 167+17 = 184, so 10M, or 5%, is reserved for root's use. This is the default setting and many people think it's too large for modern systems. You can change it with the -m option to mke2fs. > What's the directory "lost+found" under /mnt ? Each filesystem gets one of these. It's where data fragments that can't be automatically reassembled get put during an fsck after a crash. You are unlikely ever to need the contents, but it's on very rare occasions extremely useful. However, if you're actually doing backups, it's almost always faster and easier to restore from backup than to try to stitch together the lost blocks found in lost+found. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
