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decreasing “reserved block count” does not show up in df output

By default my ext3 file system had 122060 blocks(5%) reserved. I decreased this to 24412(1%), but there were no changes in df output: root@t60:~# df -P Filesystem 1024-blocks Used ...
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Tell fs to free space from deleted files NOW

Is there a way to tell the kernel to give back the free disk space now? Like a write to something in /proc/ ? Using Ubuntu 11.10 with ext4. This is probably an old and very repeated theme. After ...
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Getting info about a Virtual file system

I have created a Virtual ext3 partition on a armv7 machine with: dd if=/dev/zero of=./system.img bs=1000000 count=200 mkfs.ext2 ./system.img tune2fs -j ./system.img Now I need to get info about ...