Re: Where has all my HD space gone?

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Foz wrote:

> 	It puzzles me that I install 650Mb of software on a 750Mb drive, 

I hope you're not equating 1 CDROM = 650Mb of software ?

> 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?

If the drive is 750Mb, then you'll need space for /boot (if you partition
that separately), and swap... 

Cheers,

Alex.


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