Arch taking to much space?

kensai · 2005-06-04 02:06:12

Ok here are my partitions:
/dev/hda1 41.13MB ext2
/dev/hda2 271.44MB swap
/dev/hda3 79711.19MB ext3
So my HD is 80GB but, I have only installed: the arch base system with the arch-base.iso and
gnome, gnome-extras, xorg, firefox, openoffice, java development kit. And when I look at how much space / partition is taking it says 3.4 GB so that may leave out of 79711.19MB it shold have 76GB of free space but lets put it 71GB as acceptable. But nautilus tell me there is only 67GB free. Why is this happening is this a bug or arch is taking to much space. In a complete Gentoo install with the same setup and installations it says 71GB free. ANy one knows what is making this happen?
Note: in gentoo I used reiserfs and after switching to arch and loving it am using ext3.

z4ziggy · 2005-06-04 02:59:41

try cleaning up your pacman cache : pacman -Scc

kensai · 2005-06-04 03:13:38

z4ziggy wrote:

try cleaning up your pacman cache : pacman -Scc

I already did that. it was 66GB until I pacman -Scc and went to 67GB free space. I knwo this is not tha mission critical but I really wants to know what is causing this. I don't know if this is because of ext3?

iBertus · 2005-06-04 03:27:30

I suppose the filesystem itself could be taking up some space. IIRC reiserfs uses less space for itself than does ext3.

iphitus · 2005-06-04 05:57:06

an '80gb' hdd is only 74.5gb because hard drive manufacturers use 1000bytes for a kbyte, whereas the computer sees 1024bytes for a kbyte.

i3839 · 2005-06-04 11:04:13

What's your df -h output?

kensai · 2005-06-04 11:39:06

i3839 wrote:

What's your df -h output?

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3              74G  2.1G   68G   3% /
none                  504M     0  504M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                 504M   12K  504M   1% /tmp
/dev/hda1              38M  5.2M   31M  15% /boot

-Thanks for your interest Guys.
@iphitus I know that, not as well explained as you did but thats why I said 71GB were acceptable because after doing the same things and installing the same in gentoo or frugalware with reiserfs, I'm left with 71GB but here with ext3 I have 67.3GB

jerem · 2005-06-04 11:57:03

This is a quite normal space usage...

i3839 · 2005-06-04 11:57:18

Ah, got it: By default ext3 reserves 5% space for the root user, so that things can be done when the system is full (like logging in etc.)

74 * 0.95 - 2.1 = 68.2

You can change it with tune2fs -m.

kensai · 2005-06-04 14:44:47

i3839 wrote:

Ah, got it: By default ext3 reserves 5% space for the root user, so that things can be done when the system is full (like logging in etc.)
74 * 0.95 - 2.1 = 68.2
You can change it with tune2fs -m.

Now when I grow up I want to be like you. . out of joke now, thanks for making me see what was happening I greatly apreciate your interest. Now I see this is a good thing of ext3 in my opinion.
BTW, what is tune2fs -m ? what does it do?

i3839 · 2005-06-04 14:54:27

man tune2fs

That's all you need.

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