large disk space problem?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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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