Re: large disk space problem?

[Mikkel]

zhu blue wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Thank you all.
>  
>  Looks like I forgot to run "mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1" after I used
>  "fdisk /dev/sdb" to partitioned it. originally this disk has many linux
>  partitions, after I repartitioned it to a single one, then reboot, it
>  automatically mounted as 9.2G disk. then I copied some 5.3G data onto
>  it.
>   
In the future, you may find that parted works better for doing this.
It will even let you format the partition in the same program.

>  The following is what I have just done, seems ok now.(although
> claimed
>  160G disk only has 140G can be use , too bad :) )
>   
Unless you specify otherwise when you create the file system, 5% is
reserved for root. You also lose disk space because of file system
overhead. Then you have the fact that hard drive size is usually
given with k=1000 - it looks better when advertising drive size.

Mikkel
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