Re: Where has all my HD space gone?

["Foz" <nospam [at] mmu.ac.uk>]

> 
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Foz wrote:
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> > 	It puzzles me that I install 650Mb of software on a 750Mb drive, 
> 
> I hope you're not equating 1 CDROM = 650Mb of software ?
No from my SuSE 6.3, and Yast says 656Mb to install 10% free, 
and after install I do df, and free space is 0%
> 
> > 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... 
Boot I have separate and swap, I just think that its a little odd.

Thanks
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