Separate /home partition on arch-based distros take more space than used

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/dev/dm-1 861G 325M 817G 1% /home

I have a separate luks encrypted /home partition with 861G allocated out of a 931G HDD.

The usage is around 1%, but the availabe space is only 817G.

I am having this problem with multiple Arch-based distros like Manjaro, Antergos. I reported this on their forums, but couldn't find a solution yet. They concluded this might be a problem with inode configuration. So I think this must be a problem irrespective of distros.

Is it possible to configure a separate /home partition on a 1TB HDD?

Why is the reported available space only 817G out of allocated 861G?

Which file-system do you use? – mattia.b89 Mar 05 '17 at 16:56 — mattia.b89, Mar 05 '17 at 16:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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It is common to reserve some of the blocks for root, and those are not counted as "available" in df's output. If your filesystem has 5% of reserved blocks and is 861GB, there is 95% of that left, or about 817GB, which is consistent with what you see.

This U+L question may be relevant: Reserved space for root on a filesystem - why?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Mar 05 '17 at 18:44

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Thanks I figured it out and EXT4 reserves 5% of partition for root privileges and so to avoid fragmentation and other issues. – Mar 06 '17 at 05:04
with my previous comment, here I was driving at! – mattia.b89 Mar 08 '17 at 22:14

Separate /home partition on arch-based distros take more space than used

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