Best File System for Media Repository

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:25:57PM +0100, Dave wrote:
> On 08/07/10 16:10, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> > I have partitioned the whole drive as Linux (0x82) and formated it as 
> > EXT4 - checking the properties I got: 46.8 GB used and 870.1 GB free - 
> > and that's without any files on it!
> 
> When you format with ext4 it reserves some space for system.

"some" being 5%, which explains the 46 GB.

> You can use 
> the following to reclaim that space.
> 
> tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sd??
> 
> Change the /sd?? to whatever is your external drive and change the 0 to 
> something higher if you want to reserve some space.

Marius Gedminas
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