External drive partitioning problems

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.12.2011 21:09, schrieb 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.

agreed that the default fo 5% is simply stupid these days
there shoud be used reserved blocks (-r) because in days
of volumes with 1,2,4, and > 5 TB 5% is a large amount

but well, it is a single command to configure this

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