{"id":3331,"date":"2026-02-16T18:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:06:27","slug":"difference-between-free-and-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/?p=3331","title":{"rendered":"difference between free and available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You could have an ext4 partition with almost 70 gb <em>free<\/em> (i.g. on KDE partition manager) but only a few more than 10 gb <em><em>available<\/em><\/em> in Dolphin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed <em>free<\/em> and <em>available<\/em> are not the same: free means the <em>total<\/em> space (available for <em>root<\/em>), available (in Dolphin) is the space for a single <em>user.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that partition is not a root one (=is not \/) you could do something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo tune2fs -m 1 \/dev\/sdxx <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>in the code above replace <code>sdxx<\/code> with the real name of your partition (you can know it, i.g. doing <code>df -h<\/code>), that is something like <code>sdb8<\/code> or <code>sdc6<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be careful! Make sure that you have enough linux knowledge to do safely this kind of command. At <em>your<\/em> risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After your command, you should see that in that partition your user-available space is only 1gb less of the total space (that is 70 &#8211; 1). If your command would have been<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo tune2fs -m 3 \/dev\/sdxx<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Your user available space would be =70-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could have an ext4 partition with almost 70 gb free (i.g. on KDE partition manager) but only a few more than 10 gb available in Dolphin. Indeed free and available are not the same: free means the total space (available for root), available (in Dolphin) is the space for a single user. If that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/?p=3331\" class=\"more-link\">Leggi tutto<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;difference between free and available&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[647,823],"tags":[987,986,286,988],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-partitions","tag-available-space","tag-free-space","tag-root","tag-user"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalia.culturanuova.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}