Hi, Ans: / = ~45GB /boot =~2GB /swap =~16GB
I have another question why gparted, fdisk -l, system-config-lvm are giving different outputs for 12TB but giving the same output for 500GB With Regards sunil On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:28 AM, jdow <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011/06/03 06:47, Alec T. Habig wrote: > >> James Holland writes: >> >>> Don't know why this is... But check how big your other partitions >>> are using gparted. >>> >> >> Could it be that he's comparing the "1TB" drives he's bought (which are >> marketed as decimal 1x10^12 bytes) with the expected (binary) 2^40 bytes? >> >> That's a 10% reduction in perceived space. If the disk format has also >> reserved the traditional (and now obsolete) 10% for root use only, then >> suddenly we're 2.5 TB down from what one would naively expect after >> clicking on "Newegg, please send me 12 terabyte drives". >> >> gparted will show the whole capacity (ignoring this root reserve), but >> "df" won't. >> > > How big are /, /boot, and /swap? > > > (I'm old fashioned and silly, I like "/dev/fdisk -l /dev/sda >foo" as > a way of exporting the actual partitioning. I am not sure fdisk would > be happy with 12 TB, though. But showing us the actual partitioning > might be a good idea.) > > {o.o} Joanne. (Imprinted on the old tools back in about '88 on of > all things "Amiga Unix.") >
