on 9-25-2008 4:31 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: > I just reformatted an 8Gb USB drive as ext3. > > While as FAT32, it was reported as having well over 7Gb free (did not > note the exact capacity). > > I reformatted with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 > > Now it is reported (oh, this is with properties in Nautilus) as having > 6.8Gb capacity (free space actually). > > Does this makes sense that ext3 has less available space than fat32? Ext3 reserves some space for root by default. I think it is like 5 or 10 %. That might be it. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080925/855af3fa/attachment-0004.sig>