Questions about partitioning and ext3
JEMF
jemf at gabcmt.eb.mil.br
Thu Jan 5 12:47:25 UTC 2006
Somebody has more ideas about this subject?
JEMF escreveu:
> Hello all!
>
> I have a 512 MB Kingston flash disk. When I try to create a partition
> with 460 MB (471.040 KB), the partition is created with 460.6 MB
> (471.665 KB).
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 1 951 471665 83 Linux
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Why? Geometry?
>
> 2nd Question:
>
> When I format the partition with ext3, the df -k command returns:
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1 456730 8239 424908 2% /mnt
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> I think 8239 KB (8.05 MB) was used by journal. But the amount of blocks
> decreased after formatted (471665 to 456730). Why?
>
> Thanks.
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