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Re: Unefficient disk formating



Hi

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:04:47AM +0200, פופוב יבגני wrote:
> Connecting my new Seagate IDE 40Gb hard disk:
> 
> fdisk  creates a partition of 39078081 blocks 
> 
> mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 
> 
> df -h /dev/hdb1 gives me only 37G available - ( now it is 9.5G used + 25G
> Avail = 34.5G )
> 
> Seems something goes wrong, I have lost about 15 % of disk space at this
> moment, with the disk relatively empty.

You shouldn't look at used+free, but at total (the '1k-blocks' column
at my df).  The FS reserves a certain percentage to root only.
Do 'man tune2fs'.  Also, the FS data structures themselves take some
space (something like 1-2% on my disks, but I don't have any partition
close to 40GB).

> 
> Should I play with cluster size or any other parameters ?
> 
> Answering "RTFM" with URLs would be kindly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
>  
> 
> "Unix IS user friendly, it is just selective about who his friends are."
> Anonymous
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