Comments on: Recovering reserved space in ext2 and ext3 filesystems

By: Recovering ext3 reserved space - Ext3 Ext4 Tutorial

Recovering ext3 reserved space - Ext3 Ext4 Tutorial — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:19:55 +0000

[...] Here is a good tutorial show you how to Recover ext3 reserved space: When using the ext2 or ext3 filesystem by default 5% of the available blocks is reserved for use by the root user. This allows the system to continue running if non-root users fill up the file system and also assists in preventing file fragmentation because the filesystem does not fill up completely. [...]

By: Jonathan David Page

Jonathan David Page — Sat, 15 May 2010 20:01:36 +0000

Thanks, found this while trying to figure out why my data partition was hiding 8 GB of space from me. All better now though.

By: JamieRF » Software RAID-5: using mdadm in Ubuntu 9.10

JamieRF » Software RAID-5: using mdadm in Ubuntu 9.10 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:54:46 +0000

[...] Recovering reserved space in ext2 and ext3 filesystems [...]

By: semco

semco — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:22:55 +0000

Thank you very much