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|    Bit Twister to All    |
|    Re: OT: ext4 or NTFS for external drive?    |
|    15 Nov 12 22:18:00    |
      From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com              On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:34:33 -0500, TJ wrote:       > Interesting. You're probably correct, but I find myself confused again.       > Consider this:       >       > $ df -m /home       > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on       > /dev/sdb6 222796 73649 149147 34% /home       >       > Take note that if you add the used and available blocks together, you       > get 0 blocks unaccounted for.              $ echo "222796-73649-149147"| bc       0              > No reserved, unused space.              Ok, I will agree with you that there is no reserved space.       I will guess the partition was created with 0% reserved space.              Looking at my /video I get       $ df -m /video       Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on       /dev/sdb11 215605 3303 212086 2% /video              $ echo "scale=10; (215605-3303-212086)/215605" | bc       .0010018320       which is close enough to the .001 I used to set the reserved value.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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