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Get back up to 50 GB missing space
WARNING: Using the information in this post WILL lead to denial of support and possibly void your warranty. In addition you may lose a good nights sleep if something goes wrong. Basically don't try th...
It won't end your warranty but its not something to try without careful consideration.
Here are df results with setting "-m 0" giving me all available space:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/c/c 460G 47G 413G 11% /c
This I execute tune2fs and put it back to default config:
# tune2fs -m 5 /dev/c/c
tune2fs 1.42.1 (17-Feb-2012)
Setting reserved blocks percentage to 5% (6044876 blocks)
Now df results again:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/c/c 460G 47G 390G 11% /c
See how the Avail column drops 26 GB when I return to the default config? This creates the illusion of missing space :)
Here are df results with setting "-m 0" giving me all available space:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/c/c 460G 47G 413G 11% /c
This I execute tune2fs and put it back to default config:
# tune2fs -m 5 /dev/c/c
tune2fs 1.42.1 (17-Feb-2012)
Setting reserved blocks percentage to 5% (6044876 blocks)
Now df results again:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/c/c 460G 47G 390G 11% /c
See how the Avail column drops 26 GB when I return to the default config? This creates the illusion of missing space :)
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