Re: ext2 - available+used not equal to total

Jochen Heuer (jogi@planetzork.ping.de)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:35:28 +0100


On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 01:20:59AM +0100, Hicham Mouline wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Linux 2.0.33
>
> df /
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda2 598665 537953 29787 95% /
>
> The thing is that :
>
> 29787+537953 == 567740
>
> So what happened to 598665-567740 == 30925 ?
> Are those for the superblock and the inodes table ?

Nope, it's reserved for the super-user. See: man mke2fs.

Regards,

Jogi

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