On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:32:50PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > As you see 379 MB are missing?! That is what actually confuses me! > > What is going on and how to fix it? > This is normal. Linux filesystems by default reserve 5% of the space for > housekeeping purposes. Your "missing" 379M is the 5%. The root user will > be able to use the space if necessary, but regular users cannot. Also note that ext2/ext3 rely on having a certain amount of free space to play to prevent the filesystem from becoming fragmented and slow. So that 5% isn't going to waste. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
