Re: [PLUG] Dell Mini 9 loses 2 GB SSD

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 11 December 2008 12:40:42 pm James Barrett wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We bought a Dell Mini 9 with sort-of-Ubuntu 8.04.  I say sort of because
> > it doesn't use any of the standard Ubuntu repos, but proprietary repos on
> > Cannonical's servers.
> >
> > Anyway, we bought the model with a 16 GB SSD.  cfdisk reports two
> > partitions, one Dell partition with about 256 MB and sda2 with the
> > remaining 15+ GB.  But df reports a bit under 14 GB on sda2.  What
> > happened to the other almost 2 GB.
>
> Is there any chance that the filesystem on sda2 was originally
> formatted to be smaller than the full amount of available storage
> space?  I have no idea why they would do that, but it could be a
> possibility.

Makes sense diagnostically speaking, but cfdisk isn't showing any 
unpartitioned space.

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