Free Disk Space by Reducing Reserved Blocks

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I use a one terabyte external hard drive for backing up data. The drive came formatted with a FAT filesystem, which I immediately replaced with the more reliable ext3. After formatting the drive as ext3 I noticed that the storage capacity had dropped considerably. Why did this happen?

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Created by itsrocking 15 years 29 weeks ago
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