Re: The ext3 partition shrank after the formatting

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Subject: Re: The ext3 partition shrank after the formatting
From: Shaun Lipscombe <shaun.lipscombe@gmsl.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:21:11 +0000
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* JEMF wrote:

> I have a 385 MB partition. After the format with ext3, the df command 
> show "Size 361M". Why?


Some disk space is required for the lookup tables to locate files on the
disk. Try formatting a 60GB drive and see how much space is taken up!

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