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Re: mke2fs & capacity (where did it go!?)



On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote:

> But I don't have 4,401,778 blocks, I only have a total of 4,253,289 blocks
> which becomes aprox 4,355,367,000 bytes.
> 
> How does it get from 4,401,778 blocks to 4,253,289 blocks ?
> Somewhere along the line I lost about 250,000 blocks... ??

You neglected to account for the inode tables and other internal
filesystem structures that take up space in the filesystem.

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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