Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB?

[Jeff Rollin]

On 25/10/06, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@×××××.com> wrote:
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> On 25/10/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
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> > On 10/24/06, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.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?
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> > 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.
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> > -Richard
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> > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
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> 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?


Oops! I meant 5%  = 15GB, of course.