Ext4 FS has claimed 3% of partition space. Where has this gone and can I get it reclaimed? I have tried disabling Journals for the ext4 partition. Even this is not helping. Any other tricks I can try to get the space reclaimed other than reverting back to ext3? $ lsb_release -cr Release: 12.04 Codename: precise df -hP |grep media /dev/sda3 21G 430M 20G 3% /media/MAIL /dev/sda2 148G 188M 148G 1% /media/DATA => if I move this to ext4 its claiming 2.4G /dev/sda3 on /media/MAIL type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) /dev/sda2 on /media/DATA type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda3 |grep 'Reserved block count' Reserved block count: 0 $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda2 |grep 'Reserved block count' Reserved block count: 0 NO hidden files or directories $ sudo du -ah *;pwd 16K lost+found /media/MAIL