new guy checking in has new problem(s)

[Karl Larsen]

David Fox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Jimmy Montague
> <rhetoric102 at iowatelecom.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> I tried to do as you said. I got gparted to delete the old partitions
>> and create a single new partition formatted ext3. Problem is the new
>> partition has a folder in it called lost+found. It takes up 10g of space
>> and I can't delete it. So my 80g drive is now a 70 g drive.
>>     
    That is way to large for lost+found. You can look inside that 
directory and see what is there. My experience has been about 10 KB is 
right. Tell us what you find in that directory.

Karl
 


>
> That still leaves 12.5% (roughly) of the drive space unused, which
> seems to be a bit much. lost+found shouldn't take up any space unless
> files end up in there, otherwise should be empty (that directory is
> for files that can't be linked to a directory entry anymore on a
> filesystem check). ext3 and ext2 filesystems reserve a certain space
> (that is tunable) available by only the superuser, but that's usually
> 10%, most times only 5%, especially on larger disks. That's there to
> prevent the filesystem from filling up (not a good idea especially on
> root partitions) and to minimize fragmentation.
>
>   
>> I can't change the name of the drive or the mount point. gparted simply
>> doesn't offer me the option of doing either.
>>     
>
> You use other tools for that. e2liabel or volid for disk labels
> (although they're not necessary) and mount to mount the drive in the
> new partition. If you edit /etc/fstab and add an entry you can get it
> to mount where you want to on boot. For instance, I have one of my
> partitions mounted on /storage (for mp3, avi, that sort of thing).
>
> /dev/sdc5         /storage        xfs defaults                0       0
>
>   


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