On 6/4/05, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Figure this one out.
>
> /dev/hda6 is ~10GB per fdisk but 5.0GB per df (see below).
>
> # fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda6 3457 4673 9775521 83 Linux
>
> # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 5.0G 1.9G 3.1G 38% /home
Where does fdisk say that the partition is 10GB? It says that the
partition contains 9775521 blocks. Each block is 512bytes, you get the
total size to be 5,005,066,752 or 5GB.
Thaths
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