Thanks for explaining this to me. -------------------- Matt Dodson Infrastructure Engineer matt_dodson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.messageone.com MessageOne 11044 Research Blvd Building C, Fith Floor Austin, Tx 78759 (512) 652-4500 (office) -----Original Message----- From: Jon Burgess [mailto:jburgess777@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:40 PM To: Matt Dodson Cc: ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Missing blocks On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:18 -0600, Matt Dodson wrote: > Hopefully this is a simple issue or just my ignorance on the results > returned by "df -k" but can anyone explain why the available block is > 0 if total 1k-blocks - Used is greater than 0? > > You have 5% reserved for root use only, this is 20GB on your current filesystem. See the -m option in 'man mke2fs' for details. tune2fs can adjust this if the filesystem is unmounted. > #df -k /ems/bigdisk/ > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used > Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/mapper/vg0-bigdisk 397367512 383562960 > 0 100% /<name> > > Block count: 100925440 > > Reserved block count: 5046160 > > Free blocks: 3174088 > Block size: 4096 Above we see 5046160 x 4096 bytes are reserved. Jon _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users