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From: "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:15:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a0028260610242215rcf984a2i39124647adf4e78b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640610242210g963753i4fdc5240166f887e@mail.gmail.com>

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On 25/10/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/24/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a 320GB hard drive with a small swap partition, a small boot
> > partition, and the remainder in the root partition.  'du -sh /' says
> > 278G and a mkisofs command failed with no space left on device.  What
> > happened to the rest of the gigs?
>
> If you formatted with ext3/ext2, 5% is reserved for root, and will not
> appear in df output.  This would account for about 15G.  Another 7.3%
> (or about 23G) is lost due to the fact that linux and df count 1GB as
> 1073741824 bytes, while manufactures sell drives counting 1GB as
> 1000000000 bytes.
>
> -Richard
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
This probably isn't the place to discuss this, but if 5% reserved space =
5GB, maybe it's time to shrink that down to a default of 1% (3GB) or less?

Jeff
-- 
Proud Linux user since 1998

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25  4:12 [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB? Grant
2006-10-25  4:36 ` kashani
2006-10-25  4:41 ` Jamie
2006-10-25  4:47 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-25  5:16   ` Richard Fish
2006-10-25  5:28   ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-25  5:10 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-25  5:12   ` Richard Fish
2006-10-25  5:26     ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-25 15:57     ` Grant
2006-10-25  5:15   ` Jeff Rollin [this message]
2006-10-25  5:16     ` Jeff Rollin
2006-10-25  5:26 ` Norberto Bensa

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