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

[Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>]

> Thats over 250megs of tables and internal structures ?
> 
> Wow...

Not only. I don't remeber whether it was already mentioned but by default
5% of the filesystem is "reserved" for the super-user. You may override
this default with -m option to mk2efs.

Alex Y.

> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
> 
> > 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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