Re: [patch] Please document the fact that df ignores reserved space

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 03:12:14PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 15/12/2020 11:56, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote:
> >
> > I was surprised to discover that df ignores the reserved space set
> > by tune2fs -m It's nice, but it would be nicer still to document it.
> 
> I think you're saying that df honors the reserved space,
> and reports the space available to the current user.
> This would be file system specific though.

FWIW on my system, df version 8.28 reports the same values for ext4 file
systems on Linux 4.15 when as run as root as when run as a user.

Thanks,
Erik
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