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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:50:28 -0400
From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Ivan Carey <ivan@careytech.com.au>
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Subject: Re: How to understand partition sizes
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:46:51PM +1000, Ivan Carey wrote:

> Hello,
> After installing a new system on a 500Gb HDD the partition size I 
> allocated at install does no match the size after complete system 
> installation

This is well covered in the FAQ and in numerous posts to this list.
Check the archives.   

////jerry

> Disc size comes up as 476937MB
> 
> At install I partitioned the disc:
> /             2048Mb
> /swap     4096Mb
> /var        2048Mb
> /server   440Gb
> /usr        13065Mb
> 
> After install and checking the partition sizes with KDiskFree the 
> partitions are:
> /            1.9Gb
> /var       1.9Gb
> /server   431.0Gb
> /usr       12.4Gb
> 
> The /server is 9Gb smaller than I partitioned and the actual free space 
> without any files in the partition is shown as 396.5Gb which is another 
> 34.5Gb smaller.
> 
> Am I actually seeing what is really happening or am I really loosing 
> 43.5Gb of space on the /server partition
> 
> Thanks,
> Ivan
> 
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