Windooze XP Partitions and hidden files!!

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 11:05 +0100, Anthony Gardner wrote:
> I don't know much about M$ but I wanted to install Ubuntu for a friend
> and in her XP installation, she has two partiotins, c and d.
> 
> C has all her stuff and d is empty.
> 
> When I went to partition her drive in ubuntu, I saw that there was
> 9.55MB used on the d drive.
> 
> Does anyone know what that might be?

It's system overhead. All filesystems will use a small amount of the
data storage area for it's own use - at a minimum it needs to store a
superblock and inodes (or something analogous to them)

10M used on a 28G partition sounds about right for this

alan