new guy checking in has new problem(s)

[David Fox]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Jimmy Montague
<rhetoric102 at iowatelecom.net> wrote:

> I tried to do as you said. I got gparted to delete the old partitions
> and create a single new partition formatted ext3. Problem is the new
> partition has a folder in it called lost+found. It takes up 10g of space
> and I can't delete it. So my 80g drive is now a 70 g drive.

That still leaves 12.5% (roughly) of the drive space unused, which
seems to be a bit much. lost+found shouldn't take up any space unless
files end up in there, otherwise should be empty (that directory is
for files that can't be linked to a directory entry anymore on a
filesystem check). ext3 and ext2 filesystems reserve a certain space
(that is tunable) available by only the superuser, but that's usually
10%, most times only 5%, especially on larger disks. That's there to
prevent the filesystem from filling up (not a good idea especially on
root partitions) and to minimize fragmentation.

> I can't change the name of the drive or the mount point. gparted simply
> doesn't offer me the option of doing either.

You use other tools for that. e2liabel or volid for disk labels
(although they're not necessary) and mount to mount the drive in the
new partition. If you edit /etc/fstab and add an entry you can get it
to mount where you want to on boot. For instance, I have one of my
partitions mounted on /storage (for mp3, avi, that sort of thing).

/dev/sdc5         /storage        xfs defaults                0       0