On EXT3 and EXT4, is journal space allocation a component of any of the df output? IOW, if space consumed is 98% and the journal is the default size, can or does the journal prevent consumption of that last 2%? Reason for asking: I have a STB that according to blkid is using EXT3, a partition using the entirety of the "2TB" HD, for recordings. Even though there is far more freespace on the filesystem, 25991708 1K blocks (or more, subject to deleting test recording attempts), it's truncating recordings to about 13000K or 14000K, within a minute of beginning any recording. I'm trying to figure out how much space ultimately is or will be available before space is truly exhausted. Can an EXT3 filesystem be "converted" to EXT2, IOW, dispense with the journal? How about changing the size of the journal to line up closely to the size of a typical recording file (somewhere in the 2G to 12G range). Some datapoints: # blkid /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: LABEL="wd20azbme2t" UUID="f6c1d5e1-9390-44a0-b751-af13f7bef403" TYPE="ext3" # mount | grep sda1 /dev/sda1 on /media/hdd type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) # uname -a Linux azboxme 3.9.2-opensat #1 PREEMPT Wed May 20 12:25:28 CEST 2015 mips GNU/Linux # grep sda1 /etc/fstab # # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 tune2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013) Filesystem volume name: wd20azbme2t Last mounted on: /media/hdd Filesystem UUID: f6c1d5e1-9390-44a0-b751-af13f7bef403 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 122101760 Block count: 488378134 Reserved block count: 0 Free blocks: 6501398 Free inodes: 122100290 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 907 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8192 Inode blocks per group: 256 RAID stride: 1 RAID stripe width: 1 Filesystem created: Sat Aug 11 02:17:02 2012 Last mount time: Fri Mar 11 14:49:48 2016 Last write time: Fri Mar 11 14:49:48 2016 Mount count: 127 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Thu Sep 3 04:42:25 2015 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 882 GB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: 50196500-be68-443f-b91b-a748a5ab3497 Journal backup: inode blocks -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org