> I have a 320GB hard drive with a small swap partition, a small boot
> partition, and the remainder in the root partition.  'du -sh /' says
> 278G and a mkisofs command failed with no space left on device.  What
> happened to the rest of the gigs?
>
> - Grant
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The 320GB refers to the unformatted capacity (some is kept as space for
swapping out bad clusters), also drive manufacturers generally use units
of 1000 rather than 1024 in their calculations.

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