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| Ext keeps some reserved space so that if the disk is full a root user can login and still do stuff in the reserved space. However this value is quite large. If you have a modern disk then it can be many GB of space. As its default is 5% then for example on a 2TB disk that is approx 100GB of space reserved. | Ext keeps some reserved space so that if the disk is full a root user can login and still do stuff in the reserved space. However this value is quite large. If you have a modern disk then it can be many GB of space. As its default is 5% then for example on a 2TB disk that is approx 100GB of space reserved. | ||
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| Then you can get some of the reserved space back :) | Then you can get some of the reserved space back :) | ||
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| + | To check the current reserved space: | ||
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| + | tune2fs -l / | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | Compare the reserved block count prior and after running the change and it will be different. Unfortunately it does not display a %. | ||
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| + | Run the commands with sudo if not root. | ||
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