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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:15:59
Message-Id: 7573e9640610242210g963753i4fdc5240166f887e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB? by Grant
1 On 10/24/06, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > I have a 320GB hard drive with a small swap partition, a small boot
3 > partition, and the remainder in the root partition. 'du -sh /' says
4 > 278G and a mkisofs command failed with no space left on device. What
5 > happened to the rest of the gigs?
6
7 If you formatted with ext3/ext2, 5% is reserved for root, and will not
8 appear in df output. This would account for about 15G. Another 7.3%
9 (or about 23G) is lost due to the fact that linux and df count 1GB as
10 1073741824 bytes, while manufactures sell drives counting 1GB as
11 1000000000 bytes.
12
13 -Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB? Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB? Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@×××××.com>