[Solved] Weird harddrive remaining space issue

Edit: Thanks for the advice; looks like the default number is 5% reserved for the root user (a little under 30GB in my case). I guess it pays to read up on a FS before you switch to it.
I just copied the data from one partition over to another and I get the following excerpt `df -h` output.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 556G 540G 0 100% /home
I'm not sure about this, but shouldn't I have ~26G available? Is there some kind of reserved space or perhaps it isn't counting something? I'm running an EXT4 filesystem which was copied using `cp -rfv --preserve=all` from a JFS source drive.
Last edited by lunchbox (2009-12-08 07:02:03)

Nothing Arch-specific to discuss, really. This is default ext{2,3,4} behaviour.
Man mkfs.ext4
Read up on reserved space for the root user.

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