2007/12/9, Jan Ritzerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2007 schrieb Ciro Iriarte: > > > 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?. > > [...] > > Ext3 reserves 5% of the available disk space for root. Thereby, it is > ensured that root can log in even if a user "filled" the whole disk. > However, this does not make sense on your seperate home partition since > root does not use it as its home: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext3_Filesystem_Tips#Reclaim_Reserved_Filesystem_Space >
Thanks, already fixed it. > Nonetheless, fillung up a partition above ~85% is considered harmful to > performance due to fragmentation! Well, it's my laptop (not high end server) and would like to use every GB I paid for :p > > HTH > Jan Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
