Another reason is that, I think hard, disks put the actual capacity on the
disk. i.e. 1k = 1000 bytes and not 1 k = 1024 bytes. Thus the deviation on
the readings.


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On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Marvin T. Pascual wrote:

> > that is normal marvin. that is what standard unix filesystem architecture.
> >
> > there are four basic parts of a unix filesystem. these are:
> >
> > 1. boot block
> > 2. super block
> > 3. inode list
> > 4. data block
> >
> > what you have seen in df command is the data block and the rest are eaten
> up
> > by boot block, super block and inode list..
> 
> Don't we have any solution on this even just to minimize the number of bytes
> used?  Any idea from the Systems Programmer and Gurus here? :-)
> 
> Marvin

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