linux-ext4 - Re: 5% diskspace used for ext4?

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Date:	Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:45:41 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 5% diskspace used for ext4?

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:04:20AM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suspect this being a FAQ already, but I could not find[0] it:
> does ext4 really use 5% of available space for internal housekeeping?  
> After formatting and mounting a ~917GB partition I see:
>

5% of your space is being reserved for root. You can disable this with
the "-m" argument to mkfs.

regards, Kyle
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