I have a 300G hard drive, designed to run a minimal gentoo system to act as network storage for this multimedia household.
I partitioned this disk as follows: hda1 32M /boot hda2 500M swap hda3 20G / hda4 270 something /home (for the storage) / and /home are formatted ext3. I anticipate quite large files. I formatted them quite simply with mke2fs -j. /home seems to have wasted quite a lot of space. There is about 60k of real files in there (from setting up one user, nick, and having a little bit of history etc). However df -h shows: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 257G 129M 244G 1% /home Where has all the space gone? It should be about 275 G to start with, but I have 257 G, with 129M used (presumably filesystem overhead) and only 244G left. Before I start filling it up, is there a better way to format it? different block sizes or someting? googling produces a lot of stuff that doesn't seem to quite fit. Thanks.
