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Old 08-Jul-2009, 20:15
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Default Re: Where did all my HDD space go?

Are you sure it is 1/3 ?

When formating it is normal for the partitioner to "reserve" 5% of the partition in case the disk gets full but you can always override this easily with

tunefs -m0 /dev/sd(x)
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