Re: External drive partitioning problems

John Wendel <jwendel10@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:09:37 -0800



    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.

    
    Regards,

    
    John

    
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