On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:34 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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. Now I understand. Thanks!!! Peter > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit. >
