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Re: Unefficient disk formating



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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