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Question "Disk space", by Jyrki P.

Why is Gandi still lieing to customers about the disk space? Gandi advertises 5 GB for the OS, but you only get 3,2 GB including swap space, leaving only 2,6 GB for the system.

Answer, by Michael S.

If you're on Gandi MI you may have to create and mount your disk separately. (I had to do this–it's a bit confusing.) You get a disk that's about 2.5GB for the OS (that's all yours), and you also get another one that's 5GB that's completely empty. Go to https://www.gandi.net/admin/hosting/ and hit the "Disk Management" link to create and mount your 5GB disk.

Follow-up, by Jyrki P.

My point was that when a potential new customer lands at https://www.gandi.net/hosting/buy/, s/he is told that one share equals to "1/64th of the disk assigned to the server, or 5 GB of disk data (+5 GB for the system)". You DO get 5 GB virtual disk for user data, but you DON'T get 5 GB for the system, only 3,2 GB minus swap space. Because of this, I had to move some things (mail spool for example) to the other disk. The price of the server is currently so minuscule that I would have been happy with the current setup, IF they had given correct info BEFORE I bought. Gandi is aware that they have misleading info on their pages and for some reason doing nothing to correct it. Why is that?

Follow-up, by Geoff S.

The page sited above now says that system is 2 GB, which is actually less than what I got (2.4 GB). So I think this question can be closed.

Last modified: 10 Jun 2009 at 10:25 by Geoff S.