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Dark Aspect
April 4th, 2010, 12:33 AM
The filesystem is ext4 and it shows up this way on Arch Linux and Ubuntu LiveCD.

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/9523/snapshot4.png

Ideas?
cgroza
April 4th, 2010, 12:38 AM
that space is reerved by the filesystem in case you run out of space.
Dark Aspect
April 4th, 2010, 12:45 AM
that space is reerved by the filesystem in case you run out of space.

Is there a way to lower the reserved space on an ext4 filesystem? I know how to on an ext3 drive.

Also how safe is say 10 GB or 15 GB?
FuturePilot
April 4th, 2010, 12:48 AM
Is there a way to lower the reserved space on an ext4 filesystem? I know how to on an ext3 drive.

Also how safe is say 10 GB or 15 GB?

If that isn't your / drive or partition you can probably safely lower it to 1%. Default is 5%.


sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdXY

Make sure it's not mounted when you do that.
Dark Aspect
April 4th, 2010, 12:55 AM
If that isn't your / drive or partition you can probably safely lower it to 1%. Default is 5%.


sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdXY

Make sure it's not mounted when you do that.

Thanks, it is a internal hard drive that I use as an external drive, so no its not my / partition.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3553/20100313123728.th.jpg (http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3553/20100313123728.jpg)