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

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 19:26, Aesop Beetlebum wrote:
> Alrighty then.
> 
> Will take the 5% root allocation explanation. I now remember reading about 
> it some time ago [sheepish grin].
> 
> Thanks All.
> Ambrose.
> 

Yeah I have to be really careful when selling harddrives. I tell the
customer that they won't get the full 120 gig for various technical
reasons. Although it does look bad to be missing several gigabyte from a
harddrive it's just the reality of the situation.

There's nothing worse than someone wanting their money back on something
that is perfectly good and can't be RA'd.

regards,

Chris
> 
> 
> 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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