Enlarge disks by removing reserve space on ext2/3/4 Five percent of a ext2/3/4 filesysteem is reserved for root. With tune2fs this can be tweaked, even after the filesystem is created. # tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda1 this reserves 1 percent. # tune2fs -m 0.2 /dev/sda1 this reserves 0.2 percent On a filesystem that has no systemfiles, like homedirs, there is no use for any reserved space. You can make this 0 percent.