021112 David Guntner wrote:
> When I run diskdrake in the GUI to examine things,
> it shows the partition as properly now being 21G, instead of 19G as before.
> However, when I do a "df -k" to show partitions from a shell window, I get:
> 
> Filesystem    1K-blocks               Used    Available       Use%    Mounted on
> /dev/hda9             19638824                173440  19465384        1%             
> /var
> 
> Looks suspiciously like it still thinks it's a 19G partition to me....
> Is there something that I need to do to get the numbers here
> to jive with the actual size of the partition
> or is this just some kind of limitation on the part of df?

i have the same experience: my "20 GB" drive partitions to a total  19 GB .
i have always assumed it was the  1000 vs 1024  thing.
there are  2  Win/DOS partitions, the rest are ReiserFS + swap.

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