Getting Rid of Reserve Space On EXT3 Drives

Just a quick tip, by default when drives are formatted with EXT3 in Linux they reserve 5% of the drive for root, if you have a storage drive that root doesn't need to write to you can get rid of that reserve by using:

sudo tune2fs /dev/sdd1 -m 0

Obviously change /dev/sdd1 to match your hard drive. You can do this while the drive is mounted.

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