Hi All, Whenever an EXT3 partition is created some space is reserved for super-user, I used the mkfs.ext3 with option -m set to 0, but there is no effect it still reserve the space. How can i set the reserved-space to 0 or calculate the reserved-space in advance? Any suggestion/idea? Regards, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/attachments/20101005/d9da418d/attachment.htm>
Hi, Are you sure -m option is not working with mkfs.ext3? Can you verify it using tune2fs ? If 5% is reserved already, you can use "tune2fs -m 0 device" to modify it and check Reserved blocks count using "tune2fs -l device" command. HTH -- ---- Cheers, Lakshmipathi.G FOSS Programmer. www.giis.co.in On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Muhammad Ammar <mammar at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi All, > > > Whenever an EXT3 partition is created some space is reserved for > super-user, I used the mkfs.ext3 with option -m set to 0, but there is no > effect it still reserve the space. How can i set the reserved-space to 0 or > calculate the reserved-space in advance? > > Any suggestion/idea? > > > Regards, > > _______________________________________________ > Ext3-users mailing list > Ext3-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/attachments/20101005/c8a488e8/attachment-0001.htm>
Muhammad Ammar wrote:> Hi All, > > > Whenever an EXT3 partition is created some space is reserved for > super-user, I used the mkfs.ext3 with option -m set to 0, but there is > no effect it still reserve the space. How can i set the reserved-space > to 0 or calculate the reserved-space in advance? > > Any suggestion/idea? >Please let us know the version of e2fsprogs you are using, and then show the commands you used which exhibited this problem. Thanks, -Eric
Hi, Yes, I checked it with both(mkfs.ext3 and tune3fs) on multiple systems but no effect. I also checked -m with multiple values(0, 1) but no effect I am using Fedora 13. Regards, On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Lakshmipathi.G <lakshmipathi.g at gmail.com>wrote:> Hi, > Are you sure -m option is not working with mkfs.ext3? Can you verify it > using tune2fs ? > If 5% is reserved already, you can use "tune2fs -m 0 device" to modify it > and check Reserved blocks count using "tune2fs -l device" command. > > HTH > > -- > ---- > Cheers, > Lakshmipathi.G > FOSS Programmer. > www.giis.co.in > > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Muhammad Ammar <mammar at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> >> Whenever an EXT3 partition is created some space is reserved for >> super-user, I used the mkfs.ext3 with option -m set to 0, but there is no >> effect it still reserve the space. How can i set the reserved-space to 0 or >> calculate the reserved-space in advance? >> >> Any suggestion/idea? >> >> >> Regards, >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ext3-users mailing list >> Ext3-users at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users >> > > > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/attachments/20101005/8ccea50c/attachment.htm>