John Aldrich wrote:
>
> 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
I'll ask a stupid question... what are you using to see the drive space
that Linux found?
The reason I ask is that if you're using 'df', the size difference (I
think we're down to around 600M now?) _could_ be explained by the 5% of
drive space that the ext2 filesystem maintains for itself/root.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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