TBSN
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That does seem like a lot of space to lose just for the filesystem, but I can't say I've paid a lot of attention myself since I use XFS for most of my filesystems. Part of that space may have been lost to the space reserved for root, which defaults to 5%, to allow root and processes running as root to still have some space even after the filesystem fills up.
I'm having a similar issue, but in my case it may be because I don't understand how linux set itself up (I just let Ubuntu do it's thing). Under "filesystem" it says that it has total of 100GB on a 120GB drive. I assumed that that was the harddrive and not just the main partition. There's a swap partition too I guess, but I assumed that "filesystem" includes the whole drive.
and thanks for the link!
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