On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> Don't know what the default cluster size is during a Mandrake install, but i
> think that the smaller the cluster size, the larger the overhead and the
> greater the size loss. If you were to have more than one partition, the
> problem would probably get considerably worse !! I have a seagate 4GB drive
> as my linux partition at home, i have a swap partition of 128Mb, a home
> partition a approx 1GB, and the rest as another partition. I'll try and
> lookup the overhead on that drive later. From that we should be able to
> guess at whether in fact 9.1Gb is right. I'm beginning to think it might
> be....
>
Well, I don't doubt that the 9.1 GB is correct...however,
even if that's taken as a given, I'm still short about 600
megs...and I *know* I didn't make a swap partition 600
megs! :-) (more like 60 megs! <G>)
John
