Re: Re: SIze of reformatted USB drive

["Filipe Brandenburger" <filbranden@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 19:40, Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Does this makes sense that ext3 has less available space than fat32?
>
> Ext3 reserves some space for root by default. I think it is like 5 or 10 %.
> That might be it.

5% by default.

You can change it to 1% for your filesystem with this command:

tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda1

HTH,
Filipe
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