500gb disk -> 369 gb remain via samba share
 

Hi,

I have a new Sata disk, its 500 GB (469 really), when mounted , and shared via Samba,
it says in Windows: 367gb Free space (disk is completely empty)

It is formatted in Ext3..

Why is this?

In ext3 you have a journaling bit which takes space. So ext2 would give more space. There is also reserved block that is usually 5 percent. If it is for data only then one can use the minimum of 1 percent.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/formatting.html

Brian

Brian

He has about a 100gb missing. 469*.05=24, 469-24=445, 445-367=78gb . There is no way the journal should be taking 78gb. Something else is going on too. What does Linux report the drive space left as?

im sorry,

the disk represent 450 gb in windows, and 466 in Linux..