Re: QTparted misreporting partition usage
From: Stefan Patric (writeme_at_addressbelow.com)
Date: 06/25/05
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:46:26 -0700
On Saturday 25 June 2005 08:48, perseus wrote:
> I'm planning to install FC4 on my laptop (dell i6000) as a dual boot
> with the currently installed windows XP. However, when I come to
> partition the drive using QTparted via Knoppix CD, QTparted misreports
> the usage of the Windows partition(NTFS) saying that ~30Gb of ~33Gb
> are
> used, when running du shows that only 9Gb are used. I tried
> defragmenting the disk, but this made no difference. Has anyone else
> come across this problem before?
du reports file space usage on a partition, not partition size as
QTParted reports. Use df for partition size and amount of space
available on each filesystem/partition. Use the -h (human readable)
option.
And FWIW, I'd rather use Partition Magic or some other Windows utility,
intead of a Linux based one, to shrink a Windows partition,
particularly an NTFS one. Less headaches.
-- Stefan Patric NoLife Polymath Group tootek2@yahoo.com
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