Thanks for your replies,

I tun2fs'd my GBytes back!

Kees

"Andreas Janssen" <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> Kees Damen (<vote@gmx.net>) wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > I copied a large number of medium sized (3~10 MB) MP3 files to one of
> > the ext2FS partitions.
> >
> > When I run df, I get the following result:
> >
> > Filesystem 1k blocks Used Available
> > /dev/hdc3 128076316 4453272 117117124
> >
> > If I substract the number used blocks (4453272) of available blocks
> > (128076316 ) I get 123623044 as the result. However, according to df,
> > the available space is 117117124. A 6 GB difference!
>
> man mke2fs:
>
> -m reserved-blocks-percentage
> Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved
> for the super-user. This value defaults to 5%
>
> You can change the value using tune2fs.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
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