Re: fdisk and mount (was Re: Dselect)

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@metrolink.net>]

On Sat, 07 Mar 1998 20:42:53 +0100, "Hengstberger" wrote:
> Hi!
> I`m bloody new with linux.Partitionig my harddrive I "lost" 0,5GB, thant
> means it's neither in the dos partitioning list nor in the Linux's. I don't
> really need it at present. How can I access this space again, without
> competely formatting the entire HDD?

David Stern <kotsya@u.washington.edu?> replied:
 
>> If all of your cylinders are accounted for, consider that mke2fs 
>> reserves 5% for root by default.

     Also, over 4% of the "raw" space is utilized by the ext2 file
system for inodes, superblocks, accounting data, etc.  My /dev/hda8
contains 974736 blocks according to fdisk, but, when formatted and
mounted, df reports its size as 943438 blocks.

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