On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 05:57 -0700, John Daz wrote: > Hello Friends, > After installing Fedora core 2 with XFS filesystem, I > observed that the filesystem size was always 12M > regardless of the partition size. Even after running > xfs_grow on the partition, the filesystem size is > never more than 90% of the partition size. Does anyone > know of a way that I can make the filesystem cover the > entire partition space? > John I'm not familiar with the XFS filesystem, but ext2/3 reserve 5% of the filesystem for the use of the root (or some other specified) user by default. With ext2/3 you would use tune2fs to change this behavior. Perhaps there is something similar going on in XFS, or perhaps the "missing" space is the space required by the journal itself. -- Chris Kloiber
