Re: ext2 - available+used not equal to total

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:58:09 +0300 (MSK)

In <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812310108030.10900-100000@blagnac.etud.insa-tlse.fr> Hicham Mouline (mouline@etud.insa-tlse.fr) 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 ?

No. This is for root (and daemons runned as root :-) You could change this
per cent (man tune2fs) but if filesystem will be REALLY full ext2fs will
work FAR worse then usual so better is to keep this "reserved" space as is...

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