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 +DATE CHECKED THIS PAGE WAS VALID: 14/09/2023 
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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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 Compare the reserved block count prior and after running the change and it will be different. Unfortunately it does not display a %. 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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