maximizing use of reformated external HD
I just bought a My Book external HD and reformatted it from fat32 to ext3 using GParted. When I remount it I discovered a folder labeled "lost+found" and discovered that 15.1gb are used. I learned that the lost+found directory is normal to be there and not a problem and that it isnt really 15gigs big but that ext2 and ext3 partitions keep as default 5% of the disk space reserved for the root user. I want to be able to access the whole HD for storage and I think the command
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdxx
will do this for me. GParted tells me that the partition is /dev/sdb1
but before I do this I want to be sure that if I enter tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1 it will do as I intend and that I wont unwittingly damage anything in the process. Can anyone verify this for me?
Thank You.
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