Re: question about file system size

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 15:47 -0500, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I was looking at one of our RHEL 5.7 systems here and I did a df -h to
> see the file system sizes and I noticed something that I found odd.
> One of the  mount points shows total size of 549 GB, total used is 2
> GB, 1% utilization, but only 519 GB available.  Where did the rest go?
> That's a pretty big discrepancy. This particular file system is LVM
> using ext4, but the rest of the partitions are the same and the
> numbers aren't way off like on this partition.

Kevin,

Remember by default most mkfs utils set aside a certain percentage (~5%)
accessible only by root as a safety measure in case the filesystem fills
up with log files and such.

--Doc




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