On 02/07/2021 12:39 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I am experimenting with custom installs of MATE on Debian 10.7 . My goal is to minimize its footprint on disk, and reduce menu clutter. I have a default install with / on sda1. The custom install has / on sda2. Both installs use /sda3 for /home. 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 Why?
The short answer is that gparted uses dumpe2fs which requires partition to be mounted {perhaps read only}.
Elsewhere in this thread David pointed me to an old thread with a discussion of gparted.
[https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/01/msg00910.html]