ext3 journaling taking up HDD Space ?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 19:31, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> > Has anyone noticed 
> > ext3 journaling FS taking using up HDD space over time. 

> The journal feature does take up some finite amount of space. 

It does, yes, but that space does not ever grow over time.  

"du" is usually a good way of finding out where disk space is going to. 
If there is a genuine leak, "e2fsck -f" should find it.

Cheers,
 Stephen