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From: Richard Bywater
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00

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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.

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