Re: EXT3 Reserve Space

Hi,
Are you sure -m option is not working with mkfs.ext3? Can you verify it
using tune2fs ?
If 5% is reserved already, you can use "tune2fs  -m 0 device" to modify it
and check Reserved blocks count using "tune2fs -l device" command.

HTH

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Muhammad Ammar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
> Whenever an EXT3 partition is created some space is reserved for
> super-user,  I used the mkfs.ext3 with option -m set to 0, but there is no
> effect it still reserve the space. How can i set the reserved-space to 0 or
> calculate the reserved-space in advance?
>
> Any suggestion/idea?
>
>
> Regards,
>
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