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Re: 32GB HP and Linux GUI

@dfsmith: dumpe2fs -h /dev/md1 | grep Reserved

It's a safety measure. Linux always reserves 5% of the disk space to allow recovery if the disk is "completely full" (i.e., 95% full). If your disk were 100% full for any reason then chances are you wouldn't be able to delete files as those operations would need some temporary space...