[TriLUG] Puzzling df output

Randy Barlow randy at electronsweatshop.com
Mon Mar 15 22:50:55 EDT 2010


Rodney Radford wrote:
> Btw, you can query/set the amount of reserved space on the device using tune2fs.  The command "tune2fs -l <dev>" will give you a complete list of tunable parameters including the amount of reserved space (normally defaults to 5%), and the uid/gid of the reserved blocks user (usually root/root).

Yeah, I ended up using tune2fs to set this particular volume to have no
reserved space since it's a backup volume anyway and is written by root.
Thanks for the explanation!

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R



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