Re: Linux help
Hi Dave,
this is off-topic for this list, but anyway...
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 03:42:40PM -0800, Dave Henderson wrote:
> This time df said that there
> was a little over 30mb used on /dev/hda4 EVEN THOUGH I JUST DELETED
> EVERYTHING ON IT.
This is perfectly OK - there is a constant overhead (mostly dependent on
the overall disk size) that the filesystem introduces. For example, part of
those 30MB might contain an internal table of free and used blocks, or
(depending on the filesystem) a journal.
Cheers,
Richard
--
__ _ Richard Atterer
|_) /| Raum 505, Amalienstraße 17 5.OG, Tel. 089/2180-4654
| \/¯| Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik, LMU München
¯ '` ¯ http://www.medien.informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Reply to:
- References:
- Linux help
- From: Dave Henderson <hendedav@yahoo.com>