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yodo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-02

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[SOLVED] How much space is REALLY used on my HDD?

Hi there,
Today I moved my /home/ dir to its own partition, so that my settings are safe from the system.
I have a question about the used space:
When I use "df -h" to see how much space is used, this is the output for home:

/dev/sda2             184G  465M  175G   1% /home

So 465 MB should be used. When I right click on home and select properties only 243,5 MB are used!?
I know about the MB/MiB problem... but that would not be that extreme...

Any ideas?

greetings, yodo

Last edited by yodo (2008-05-30 15:06:49)

Zepp

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-25

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Re: [SOLVED] How much space is REALLY used on my HDD?

A certain portion of the partition is reserved. You can change how much space is reserved (to none at all if you want) with tune2fs or when you create the filesystem. I assume you are using ex2/3.

Redroar

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Registered: 2008-03-17

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Re: [SOLVED] How much space is REALLY used on my HDD?

EDIT: I forgot about how ext2/3 did that...

Last edited by Redroar (2008-05-29 23:29:20)

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yodo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-02

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Re: [SOLVED] How much space is REALLY used on my HDD?

Oh, sorry I forgot - yes I use ext3.
Well its enough to know that this is nothing unusual - I don't miss those 200MB. But for what is that reserved space used actually?

I used d3lphin - but both, konqueror and d3lphin gave the result I postet above. With and without showing hidden files.

Last edited by yodo (2008-05-29 23:34:52)

kakTuZ

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From: Hannover, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-20

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Re: [SOLVED] How much space is REALLY used on my HDD?

But for what is that reserved space used actually?

It is used to store information about the filesystem structure. Inodes, Blocks, etc. Have a look at this c't article: http://www.heise.de/open/Das-Dateisyste … l/104859/0 (German article)

yodo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-02

Posts: 71

Re: [SOLVED] How much space is REALLY used on my HDD?

That article is interesting.
I mark the Thread as solved now, thanks for your help.

fukawi2

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Re: [SOLVED] How much space is REALLY used on my HDD?

This might be helpful also (I asked similar question a while ago)
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ce-555519/

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