Many unix filesystems reserve 5% (user-confuigurable) of the space for defragmentation purposes, and so root can still write to the partition when ordinary users have filled up the available space. That's the difference you see between the size and the avail.
Did you check the size of the files with du? Cheers, Carl. On 02/02/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 300G hard drive, designed to run a minimal gentoo system to > act as network storage for this multimedia household. > > I partitioned this disk as follows: > > > hda1 32M /boot > hda2 500M swap > hda3 20G / > hda4 270 something /home (for the storage) > > / and /home are formatted ext3. I anticipate quite large files. I > formatted them quite simply with mke2fs -j. > > /home seems to have wasted quite a lot of space. There is about 60k of > real files in there (from setting up one user, nick, and having a > little bit of history etc). However df -h shows: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda4 257G 129M 244G 1% /home > > Where has all the space gone? It should be about 275 G to start with, > but I have 257 G, with 129M used (presumably filesystem overhead) and > only 244G left. > > Before I start filling it up, is there a better way to format it? > different block sizes or someting? googling produces a lot of stuff > that doesn't seem to quite fit. > > Thanks. >
