Re: [Moosefs-users] MFS reports used space

[Laurent W. <lw...@hy...>]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:56:13 +0300
Stas Oskin <sta...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I've installed MFS chunkservers on two boxes with 4TB each.
> 
> For some reason, the MFS shows as 187 GiB already used - while I didn't
> place any files there yet, and the chunks number equal to 0.
> 
> Any idea why it shows such stats?
I bet it is due to reserved blocks for root.
If you run ext2/3/4 try:
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/bla with ext2/3 tune4fs if ext4.
No need to unmount or put the volume read-only.
Some space will be kept as used, but formatting is taking a bunch of
blocks.
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