Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I am experimenting with custom installs of MATE on Debian 10.7 . > > [...] > > I have a default install with / on sda1. > > The custom install has / on sda2. > > [...] > > When running gparted from the first, it reports > > sda1 used space is 3.85 GB > > sda2 used space is 2.25 GB > > When running gparted from the second, it reports > > sda1 used space is 4.77 GB > > sda2 used space is 1.80 GB
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Based on the limited information available my best guess is that you are > looking at different disk drives as the device names can change between > boots. If this turns out to be not the case: - Can it be that MATE stores a large amount of data when it gets shut down and deletes the files after a new startup ? (The respective active /-filesystem's usage seems to be smaller than the inactive /-filesystem.) - What does "du -s" tell about the mounted filesystems in both situations ? Have a nice day :) Thomas
