[HLUG] ext3 options

[Tom English]

To find the size of the drive you said you entered:

$ df -m

Try using 

$ df -h

Which prints the size of the drive in a readable form, such as 900M, 1G, etc.

Tom.

----- Original Message -----
From: Emon <contact_emon at gawab.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:28 pm
Subject: [HLUG] ext3 options

> 
> Hi all
> 
> I made a 11GB partition on my HDD (for storing stuffs like
> software,songs etc.) with ""cfdisk" and then did "mkfs.ext3" &
> checked the size with "df -m"
> 
> It displays the size to be "10321".
> 
> My first question is where has the (approximately) 900MB gone??
> 
> Also I found this in "man mke2fs"
> 
> *****************
> -m reserved-blocks-percentage
> Specify  the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for
> the super-user.  This avoids fragmentation, and allows
> root-owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function
> correctly  after  non-privileged  processes are prevented from
> writing to the filesystem.  The default percentage is 5%.
> *****************
> 
> Since I don't understand the function of "syslogd" (tried
> reading the man-pages, but that didn't help either) I am asking
> you guys, do I actually need to keep 5% (500MB approximately for
> 11GB) of reserved-blocks??
> 
> Thanks
> Emon
> 
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