On Wed, 24 Nov 1999,Benjamin wrote:
| Dear friends:
|
| I notice that my hda, which is supposed to be 4.3 gig, is actually 3.8G,
| and my hdb, which is supposed to be 3.2 gig is actually 2.9G.
|
| Could someone please explain to me what's happened to the missing 500
| meg and 300 meg respectively?
|
| Thank you so much.
|
| Benjamin
|
| [sher@adsl-77-232-138 sher]$ df
| Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
| /dev/hda1 3.8G 1.6G 1.9G 46% /
| /dev/hdb1 2.9G 427M 2.3G 15%
| /bs
|
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Benjamin,
The reduction in size is due to the fact that the HD itself must store
information about the partitions (MBR), and each partition stores information
about the data it stores (Partition Table). The names may not be correct, but
the idea is that this information requires space, so while hda may be a 4.3 Gig
HD, the available space after partitioning is 3.8 Gig., and for hdb the
capacity may be 3.2 Gig, but the available space is 2.9 Gig.
Hopefully I have answered your question,
--
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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