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From: Ron Campbell
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:00

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In article <5157cc$a91d.1ec@cscnews>, bywateri@ee.cit.ac.nz says...
>
>I just recently installed Linux onto my Pentium from the August 1995 
>Slackware CD from InfoMagic.  Everything went alright (using a UMSDOS 
>installation) until I happened to look how much hard disk space I had 
>left.  Before the install I had 1Gb left but have, I only had 580Mb 
left!
>
>So I set about looking to see what was going on.  What I figured out was 
>that although DOS was reporting that Linux was only taking up 120Mb, it 
>didn't seem to appear that way with the disk space free.  I then deleted 
>the installation and, yes, the free space went back up.
>
>Anyway, does anyone know what is going on here?  I really want to 
install 
>Linux but not have to create a new partition.
>
>I have a Pentium, 16mb with a Conner 1.2Gb hard disk...Any ideas?
>
>Cheers.
>
try making a few small partitions on your HD to limit the size of the 
file allocation units.  I suggest 250 MB partitions.

	Ron
	albatros@ozramp.net.au for further information.

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Date: 1996/05/23
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