Hello Simon,
You are calculating a little bit wrong, since...
Am 2008-06-21 12:11:51, schrieb Simon Jolle sjolle:
> Hi Debian Users
>
> I am doing a backup of Thunderbird mails. As u can see the Space on disk
> is 400 MB less than the space on ISO image.
>
> How can I avoid that much wasted space?
>
> $ du -sh .mozilla-thunderbird/; du -sh mail_archive_20jun08.iso
> 1.8G .mozilla-thunderbird/
Here you calculate the REAL size of the files and not BLOCK size.
> 2.2G mail_archive_20jun08.iso
This are not only Data, but the Filesystem structure avec TOC too.
And of course, the size if a block on a CD is arround 1500 Bytes
> Did I use the wrong options?
No, since you have a little bit wrong calculated.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
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