Thread: Where did all my HDD space go?
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Old 08-Jul-2009, 21:11
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Default Re: Where did all my HDD space go?
BenderBendingRodriguez wrote:
> Are you sure it is 1/3 ?
>
> When formating it is normal for the partitioner to "reserve" 5% of the
> partition in case the disk gets full but you can always override this
> easily with
>
> tunefs -m0 /dev/sd(x)

Be a little careful with this. The space is reserved for root so that
you can still boot even if the partition is "full" for a
non-privileged user. If you release all of this, your system could be
unbootable.
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