Arch taking to much space?

Ok here are my partitions:
/dev/hda1 41.13MB ext2
/dev/hda2 271.44MB swap
/dev/hda3 79711.19MB ext3
So my HD is 80GB but, I have only installed: the arch base system with the arch-base.iso and
gnome, gnome-extras, xorg, firefox, openoffice, java development kit. And when I look at how much space / partition is taking it says 3.4 GB so that may leave out of 79711.19MB it shold have 76GB of free space but lets put it 71GB as acceptable. But nautilus tell me there is only 67GB free. Why is this happening is this a bug or arch is taking to much space. In a complete Gentoo install with the same setup and installations it says 71GB free. ANy one knows what is making this happen?
Note: in gentoo I used reiserfs and after switching to arch and loving it am using ext3.

i3839 wrote:
Ah, got it: By default ext3 reserves 5% space for the root user, so that things can be done when the system is full (like logging in etc.)
74 * 0.95 - 2.1 = 68.2
You can change it with tune2fs -m.
Now when I grow up I want to be like you. . out of joke now, thanks for making me see what was happening I greatly apreciate your interest. Now I see this is a good thing of ext3 in my opinion.
BTW, what is tune2fs -m ? what does it do?

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