zhu blue wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you all. > > Looks like I forgot to run "mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1" after I used > "fdisk /dev/sdb" to partitioned it. originally this disk has many linux > partitions, after I repartitioned it to a single one, then reboot, it > automatically mounted as 9.2G disk. then I copied some 5.3G data onto > it. > In the future, you may find that parted works better for doing this. It will even let you format the partition in the same program. > The following is what I have just done, seems ok now.(although claimed > 160G disk only has 140G can be use , too bad :) ) > Unless you specify otherwise when you create the file system, 5% is reserved for root. You also lose disk space because of file system overhead. Then you have the fact that hard drive size is usually given with k=1000 - it looks better when advertising drive size. Mikkel -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?
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