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linuxdiskspaceext3

Explanation of available disk space on linux

Can you explain why the available space is only 78G but the different beetween 905G and 782 is 123? Where is the other 45?

/dev/md2 905G 782G 78G 92% /var

File system is EXT-3

Solution

  • i check that is normal on ext-3 that filesystem reserve 5% of disk.

    For free that you can do this command

    tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda1