Re: lost space on linux partition? :( plz help

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From: Mike Holland
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:00

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Robert Howson (rchowson@paganini.sydney.sterling.com) wrote:
: agreen@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au (Anthony Green) wrote:
: >Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
: >/dev/hdb2             398156  352837    24756     93%   /
: 
: >now....that doesnt add up  .. there is like 20 meg missing :( 
: 
: Just a thought, but when I formatted a new partition the other day, I
: was a message saying that 5% of the blocks are allocated for the

It stops the system from getting more than 95% full, otherwise it would
fragment too much, and need a de-fragmenter, like Windoze.

root is exempt, but that just makes it easier to clear space.

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Mike Holland.    		http://cygwww.uwa.edu.au/user/myk
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From: myk@cygnus.uwa.edu.au (Mike Holland)
Subject: Re: lost space on linux partition? :( plz help
Date: 1996/03/15
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