On 07/09/2010 12:35 AM, Thomas Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:41:29 +0900 > Abu Attar Musharih<abuattar.musha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <snip> >> It seems OK up to this point. The 8G is there. However, partitioning >> with /sbin/fdisk and reformatting with mke2fs did not gave 8G. >>> mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1 -L 8G-USB' >> The browser shows only 6.8 G free. I should probably format with FAT32 >> OR perhaps the file browser of genome on FC7 failed to show the actual >> amount of free space. > > Hi Abu: > > The apparent size difference could be in how the sizes are calculated. One > program may use the 1K = 1000 Bytes where the other may use 1K = 1024Bytes > which would result in the latter displaying a smaller size. Also, if you use > a > -h/-H switch (human readable format) the size approximation is frequently > wrong. > > Hope this helps explain the size disparity. > > Tom >
When you format an ext3/4 filesystem, 5% of the space is "reserved". Read the man page to find the switch that disables this space waste. Regards, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
