[SOLVED] How much space is REALLY used on my HDD?

Hi there,
Today I moved my /home/ dir to its own partition, so that my settings are safe from the system.
I have a question about the used space:
When I use "df -h" to see how much space is used, this is the output for home:
/dev/sda2             184G  465M  175G   1% /home
So 465 MB should be used. When I right click on home and select properties only 243,5 MB are used!?
I know about the MB/MiB problem... but that would not be that extreme...
Any ideas?
greetings, yodo
Last edited by yodo (2008-05-30 15:06:49)

yodo wrote:But for what is that reserved space used actually?
It is used to store information about the filesystem structure. Inodes, Blocks, etc. Have a look at this c't article: http://www.heise.de/open/Das-Dateisyste … l/104859/0 (German article)

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