External drive partitioning problems

[John Wendel]

On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> I have not used fdisk for a LOOOONG time, and could not remember the 
> commands, but -l would probably provide a list of what was there, so I 
> did that.  'm' for listing the options.  Menu?
>
> 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!
>

So, what options did you use when you ran mke2fs? By default 5% of the 
disk is "reserved for root", totally stupid default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to 
recover this space.

Regards,

John

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