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
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