Fdisk disk size issue on RHEL 4

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Anne,

> I'm using FDISK to slice up my RHEL 4 servers. However, when I input, for
> instance, "+50000M" for a 50 GIG partition, it actually only shows 46
> GIG's after the partition is complete. This is upsetting my customer who
> believe I'm not doing things correctly.
>
> How do I determine how to get exactly the storage amount specified while
> using fdisk?

You won't. That other space is used by filesystem accounting - inode
tables and superblocks.

      mark