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Re: Unefficient disk formating
- To: linux ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Subject: Re: Unefficient disk formating
- From: Omer Zak <omerz(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:51:51 +0200 (EET)
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- In-Reply-To: <223B68181FC2D411933E00508B654FF8353B5D@MOASRASHI.mekorot.co.il>
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Did you check df as regular user, or as root?
There is some reserve disk space, which only the root can see or use.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, [windows-1255] &pe;&vav;&pe;&vav;&bet; &yod;&bet;ℷ&nun;&yod; wrote:
> Connecting my new Seagate IDE 40Gb hard disk:
>
> fdiskcreates 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 havelost about 15 % of disk space at this
> moment, with the disk relatively empty.
--- Omer
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