External drive partitioning problems

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/11/2011 03:09 PM, John Wendel wrote:
> 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.

I used the Gnome DiskUtility to do the 'dirty work' for me, and paid the 
price.  :)


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