Re: 33 MB used on a empty partition?

From: Franz Gustav Niederheitmann (franzn_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/07/05

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    Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:19:09 -0200
    To: Joao Clemente <jpcl@rnl.ist.utl.pt>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
    
    

    thats normal when u format a partiton using ext3. It creates an area
    for the jornaling.....

    On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:18:47 +0000, Joao Clemente <jpcl@rnl.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
    > Hi. I was running some system checks on a server where I had created a
    > partition for future use...
    > This partition has 60GB, formatted with ext3 with largefile option
    > (created with the sarge debian installer) and the only thing I can see
    > there is the "lost+found" folder...
    >
    > df shows
    > jpcl@linux:~$ df
    > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    > ...
    > /dev/md5 58875084 32828 55897952 1% /backup
    >
    > or, using this output to be more visible
    > jpcl@linux:~$ df -h
    > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    > ...
    > /dev/md5 57G 33M 54G 1% /backup
    >
    > However, du shows:
    > linux:/home/jpcl# du -sh /backup/
    > 20K /backup/
    >
    > ...
    >
    > So, where are those 33MB going to? Is it related to "largefile"? Or
    > maybe by being ext3 (maybe the journal size)?
    > What tool can I use to find out the filesystem details? The partition
    > sizes we can find out with fdisk, cfdisk, or whatever... but how do we
    > check the "what filesystem, what blocksize, what journal size", ...?
    >
    > Thanks
    > Joao Clemente
    >
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