Recovering reserved space from ext4

The Ext4 file system, like Ext3, reserves 5% of the blocks on the file system for the root user. The reserved blocks are there for root’s use as a safe guard if the filesystem gets full, it provides some wiggle room to enable the really important programs to still function. But in some cases there’s [...]

Posted on January 7, 2010 at 8:42 pm by Martin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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