On 12/11/2011 03:13 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 11.12.2011 21:09, schrieb John Wendel: >> On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> I have not used fdisk for a LOOOONG time, and could not remember the >>> commands, but -l would probably provide a >>> list of what was there, so I did that. 'm' for listing the options. Menu? >>> >>> Anyway, thanks, o did the trick, I now have a 1Gb EXT4 partition. Thing >>> is, after the formatting as EXT4, 50Gb >>> is used with nothing on the disk! >>> >> So, what options did you use when you ran mke2fs? By default 5% of the disk >> is "reserved for root", >> totally stupid default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to recover this space. > agreed that the default fo 5% is simply stupid these days > there shoud be used reserved blocks (-r) because in days > of volumes with 1,2,4, and> 5 TB 5% is a large amount > > but well, it is a single command to configure this
I ASSuME that I can still tune after putting some data on the drive? I got this drive to replace a failing drive, and as soon as I got the drive formated, I started syncing the drives while I still can... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
