External drive partitioning problems

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.12.2011 19:42, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
> I have not used fdisk for a LOOOONG time, and could not remember the commands

and that is why fdisk is showing them with "m"

> but -l would probably provide a list of what was there, so I did that

well, but there is nothing to change

> 'm' for listing the options.  Menu?

disk /dev/sdb

the first output you get is "type m for help"

> Anyway, thanks, o did the trick, I now have a 1Gb EXT4 partition.  
> Thing is, after the formatting as EXT4, 50Gb is used with nothing on the disk!

man tune2fs
this is nothing new and on all disks since years

tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1
m = reserved blocks in %

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