Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread JEMF
Marc Shapiro escreveu: Could the missing blocks (471655 - 456730) be the journal file, since that is completely invisible and not accessable through the filesystem? If so, what is using the 8239 blocks shown by df? The 8239 is the jornal. The ext2 isn't journalled. However it uses the 14 MB

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread JEMF
Matthew Dawson escreveu: Well, the number of blocks was probably taken by ext3 stuff, but I am not sure. As well, by default ext3 sets aside 5% (i think) to the root user, but the can be changed with tune2fs. Thanks fo your reply. However the 5% is inside the partition (456.730 - (424.908 +

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
Matthew Dawson wrote: On January 5, 2006 05:02 am, JEMF wrote: 2nd Question: When I format the partition with ext3, the df -k command returns: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 456730

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread Matthew Dawson
On January 5, 2006 05:02 am, JEMF wrote: > Hello all! > > I have a 512 MB Kingston flash disk. When I try to create a partition > with 460 MB (471.040 KB), the partition is created with 460.6 MB > (471.665 KB). > > >Device Boot Start