On Thu, February 2, 2006 8:45 pm, Nick Rout 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. > By default ( historically, it was sendible... ), mke2fs saves 10% of the disk space for bad blocks. Now, 1% ( well, given the electronics on them probably 0% ) is more than enough.
tune2fs -m 1 /dev/hda4 will reset to 1%. This is non-destructive, and can be performed at any time. Note also options in -J for ext3 partitions. Cheers, Steve -- Work like you don't need the money, Love like your heart has never been broken and Dance like no one can see you.
