On Sunday 09 December 2007 13:41:34 Ciro Iriarte wrote: > Hi, once 10.2 was released I installed it on my laptop using ext3 > instead of reiserfs to avoid support issues. Now comes the issue, my > home filesystem has 56GB of which i used 53GB, BUT the free space > states 41MB. So, where are the other 3GB?. > > Already tried with a du -hs /home/ and i still get 53GB of usage. > Tried also to unmount and run fsck, but apparently all is good. > > Any thoughts?
A file system is divided into blocks. When you create a 1 byte file, you will use up one entire block. Essentially you lose the remaining bits (unless you have a file system that can put multiple files into one block, like reiserfs) In ext3, the default block size is 4k, so when you create a one byte file, you lose 4095 bytes, My guess is that this is what has happened to your 3GB. If you have a high number of files that don't fill up their blocks, say 3 million files that each lose 1k each, that's 3GB gone Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
