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Dun

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Registered: 2014-12-28

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[SOLVED]External hard drive 0 bytes of free space

So I have a 2TB HDD with ext4 as fs connected over USB3.

My desktop has a Windows 7, so I've used Ext2Fsd to mount it. On Windows I have 70GB free space and I can copy and delete any files on the HDD. I've removed the letter-assignment in Ext2 Volume Manager and ejected it.
If I mount the HDD in an Arch Linux system it shows me "Free space: 0 bytes". I can delete files, but it still shows me 0 bytes of free space. I've tested it on two different laptops with Arch Linux as the OS. df -h also shows me 0 bytes of free space. I've restarted the laptops, but the problem is still persistent.

Did anybody experience something similar?

Last edited by Dun (2017-06-07 18:03:09)

subwaypassenger

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Re: [SOLVED]External hard drive 0 bytes of free space

tune2fs -l /dev/sdaX
Look at "Reserved block count".

Dun

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Re: [SOLVED]External hard drive 0 bytes of free space

Thank you very much! Everything was reserved so I used "tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1".

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Re: [SOLVED]External hard drive 0 bytes of free space

I believe 5% is the default... if you're using it for a non-system disk, 0% is probably fine.

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Dun

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Re: [SOLVED]External hard drive 0 bytes of free space

I believe 5% is the default... if you're using it for a non-system disk, 0% is probably fine.

Yes it's just for storage.