Ext4 file systems created on RHEL6.4 and RHEL6.6 have different sizes
Issue
Ext4 file systems created with the same method on RHEL6.4 and RHEL6.6 have different sizes. On RHEL6.4 the number of 1K blocks is 63461 and on RHEL6.6 it's 59365. These file systems are created on top of a 64MB logical volume.
RHEL6.4$ df -k /tmp/test
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vgl_root-test_2
63461 5385 54800 9% /tmp/test
RHEL6.6$ df -k /tmp/test
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vgl_root-test_2
59365 1289 54800 3% /tmp/test
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- kernel 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64
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