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 Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/9351947 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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