Re: Where has all my HD space gone?

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Foz wrote:

> 	It puzzles me that I install 650Mb of software on a 750Mb drive, 
> and I have zilch free space. Where has 100Mb  disappeared to, I 
> can only presume it is to do with ext2 fs, but to lose 100Mb out of 
> 750Mb space I would consider rather inefficient. Any ideas?

I've seen the other replies you've mad eto people's questions, so I'll take
them on board.

Out of 750Mb you've got:

650Mb of software
Say about 5 megs for /boot
About 32Mb for swap (that's what usually gets put in, in my experience)
5% of the drive space reserved for root

That brings it out to about 30Mb free.  If there's a few config files or
whatever that got created, some log files, that can be several more Mb, and
then you've got the whole "what is a MegaByte - 1000Kb or 1024Kb -
1,000,000bytes, or 1,048,756 bytes?"

Generally your drive size is listed in 10^6 sized megabytes, while the CD
was propably thinking terms of 2^20 MegaBytes...


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