[Novalug] partition space used question

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Sun Jan 25 00:47:03 EST 2015


i have a couple of TB sized drives in my machine so i can try out 
different linux installations.

they have several empty partitions reserved for future installs.

today i noticed that gparted is reporting quite a bit of "used" space in 
these empty partitions

for example

dev/sda3 (primary)ext4 partition size 20 GiB used 4.79GiB unused 15.21GiB

dev/sda6 (logical)ext4 partition size 10 GiB used 1.63GiB unused 8.37GiB

when i mount them and look, except for a "lost & found" folder (which is 
empty) there are no files in the partition.

I have gnome commander set to display hidden files, etc.

anyone have any idea what is going on?

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