On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> I'll ask a stupid question... what are you using to see the drive space
> that Linux found?
>
Just remember...the only stupid question is one that isn't asked. :-)
To answer the question -- FDISK (Linux FDISK, that is!)

> The reason I ask is that if you're using 'df', the size
>difference (I think we're down to around 600M now?) _could_ be
> explained by the 5% of > drive space that the ext2 filesystem
> maintains for itself/root.  
>
Hmm...Ok, but you know it's NOT the primary drive in the system, that
is to say that I'm booting off an IDE drive....if that makes any
difference.
        John

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