On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 19:40, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: >> 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. 5% by default. You can change it to 1% for your filesystem with this command: tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda1 HTH, Filipe