[plug] Dude, where is my HD space gone?

[Aesop Beetlebum]

Alrighty then.

Will take the 5% root allocation explanation. I now remember reading about 
it some time ago [sheepish grin].

Thanks All.
Ambrose.



At 06:02 PM 7/1/2004, you wrote:
>Howdy all,
>         Bit of a query to the community regarding a certain phenomenon I 
> am witnessing regarding a 120GB HD, which formats as ext3 to 111GB 
> useable space and is 100% full at 105GB...I am thinking maybe a good 
> defrag, but there seems to be little in the way of positive public 
> opinion on such tools for ext3 partitions. My solution will be to empty 
> the drive, reformat and copy back. But am interested in why it is, and 
> what is causing this.
>
>Any Ideas?
>
>Ambrose.
>
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