ext4 hogs lot of unkown space compared to ext3
- by rejith
Ext4 FS has claimed 3% of partition space. Where has this gone and can I get it reclaimed? I have tried disabling Journals for the ext4 partition. Even this is not helping. Any other tricks I can try to get the space reclaimed other than reverting back to ext3?
$ lsb_release -cr
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
df -hP |grep media
/dev/sda3 21G 430M 20G 3% /media/MAIL
/dev/sda2 148G 188M 148G 1% /media/DATA => if I move this to ext4 its claiming 2.4G
/dev/sda3 on /media/MAIL type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sda2 on /media/DATA type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda3 |grep 'Reserved block count'
Reserved block count: 0
$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda2 |grep 'Reserved block count'
Reserved block count: 0
NO hidden files or directories
$ sudo du -ah *;pwd
16K lost+found
/media/MAIL
