Re: ext2 - available+used not equal to total

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 15:30:38 +0100


On Dec 31, 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 ?

RTFM `man mke2fs' will tell you:

-m reserved-blocks-percentage
Specify the percentage of reserved blocks for the
super-user. This value defaults to 5%.

(or RTFM for tune2fs).

Harald

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