Questions about partitioning and ext3

[JEMF]

Daniel Pittman escreveu:
> JEMF <jemf at gabcmt.eb.mil.br> writes:
>>Why? Geometry?
> 
> Yup; when the flash device pretends to have geometry so that it doesn't
> confuse software that still lives in DOS land, it caused that.

How the system calculate this geometry?

>>I think 8239 KB (8.05 MB) was used by journal. But the amount of  blocks
>>decreased after formatted (471665 to 456730). Why?
> 
> The difference, of around 23,000 blocks, is five percent of the
> available space on the filesystem.

No! The difference is 14935 blocks! I mentioned in the previous message 
the difference between sizes of the unformatted partition and formated 
partition.

Can you help me again?

Thanks!