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Unefficient disk formating



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.

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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= Evgeny Popov ===================== epopov@mekorot.co.il =
=       Water Management SCADA Centers Developer          =
=          NT & Unix  System Administrator                =
=          ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL SERVICES               =
=         SUBSIDIARY OF MEKOROT WATER CO.LTD              =



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