[SOLVED] Empty partition showing 10.9 Gb in use ????

My sda1 partition is empty with no files or O.S.

Yet Gparted says it is using 10.9 Gb.

That makes no sense especially when Clonezilla spends a lot of time making an image of a empty partition.

Any explanation... a plasmoid ?? :-)

Without seeing all the numbers or the type of filesystem will assume ext4 I can only guess.

Parted will display the size of the partition as any empty container. A filesystem has overhead which is about 2% for ext4. In addition ext4 has 5% reserved space. So even though there are not any files written there is still used space.

insufficient/misleading information. Please tell us what kind of filesystem is it, how it was created. A few words about its size....

I suggest that you run fsck with the -N option to find out if the filesystem on the partition in question is corrupt.

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Steve Stites

fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -da1 /dev/sda3
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1] fsck.ext3 -da1 /dev/sdb1
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB5] fsck.ext3 -da1 /dev/sdb5
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB2] fsck.ext3 -da1 /dev/sdb2

689 Gb is size of sda1.

So about 2 % is being taken up.

Post the output of the df command

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 3523968 0 3523968 0% /dev
tmpfs 708652 9680 698972 2% /run
/dev/sda3 619166160 13788432 573919184 3% /
tmpfs 3543244 588 3542656 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 3543244 0 3543244 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb5 101760368 43515744 53068816 46% /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB5
/dev/sdb2 104112352 61164 98755932 1% /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB2
/dev/sdb1 101397896 3558248 92682272 4% /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1
tmpfs 708652 24 708628 1% /run/user/1000

argh...

The output of the parted -l command will display the size of the partition as an empty container.

The output of the df -h --si will show the size of the filesystem. The difference between the two is filesystem overhead i.e. inode table, superblock etc.