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
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