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Dear Maintainer,

    % man proc | grep -A 2 -n '/proc/partition'
    988:       /proc/partitions
    989-              Contains major and minor numbers of each partition as 
well as number of
    990-              blocks and partition name.

There's no mention of how many bytes are in a block, and no description of how
block numbers are counted.

The counting method seems relevant since 'df' returns different numbers; numbers
which must have been counted using a different method:

    % D=/proc/partitions
    % cat $D | grep -w $D
       8       37   58348048 sdc5

    # show 'df /dev/sdc5' output, 1000 bytes per block
    % df -B 1KB $D
    Filesystem     1kB-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sdc5        58765693 47037772   9337988  84% /tmp

    # Again, with 1024 byte blocks:
    % df -B 1K  $D
    Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sdc5       57388372 45935324   9119128  84% /tmp

Summary:

    1024b       57388372
    1000b       58765693
    proc        58348048

Neither 'df' block size matches 'proc'.

HTH...

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