linux disc space

[Matthew Woodcraft]

In article <iuudnTXnNsFPcijanZ2dnUVZ_tmhnZ2d at comcast.com>,
Jeff Schwab  <jeff at schwabcenter.com> wrote:
> Available space is how much you can actually access as a non-root user. 
>   Apparently (thank you Jean-Paul), space can be reserved for superuser 
> use only; such space is "free," but not "available."

> I'm not sure how superuser-only space would be reserved in the first 
> place.  I don't see anything relevant in the fdisk man page.

Look at mkfs.<whatever-your-filesystem-is>

-M-