On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:22:41AM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I think this question may have come up on the list before, but I can't find an answer in the archives.
/dev/sda3 111G 102G 3.1G 98% /home
Why is my free space only shown as 3.1G if I have used 102G out of 111 ?
I'll assume an ext3 filesystem with the default settings - in which case 5% (ish) is reserved for root's use when the disk is getting tight on space, to keep the system running for a little while longer. You can tune2fs the filesystem and make the amount less or more, depending on what you want. My root partition on my laptop has the following settings: Block count: 500015 Reserved block count: 25000
/dev/hda1 1.9G 180M 1.7G 10% /
Now, if I do: # tune2fs -m 10 /dev/hda1
Then we have: Block count: 500015 Reserved block count: 50001
/dev/hda1 1.9G 180M 1.6G 11% /
Block counts are from tune2fs -l /dev/hda1
Hope that explains it!
Cheers,