Comment on How is it possible for the IT experts to recover data that was erased from a hard drive when the storage of said hard drive appears empty?

InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

On ext4 drives 5% is reserved for the system in emergencies. Since disks are getting larger over the year, 5% is a pretty big chunk. It’s possible to tell the system to use a lower reserve. It’s the only instance I know where you can seemingly gain more storage out of thin air. I’ve used it in moments of emergencies when a servers’ disk was too full to function.

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