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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to determine the *usable* size of an SD card?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to determine the *usable* size of an SD card?
  • From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:32:54 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Charles MacDonald wrote:

> On 12-01-19 03:35 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Andrew Galloway wrote:
> >
> >> df -k will give you the blocksize in 1k blocks
> >
> >    i don't think so.  that tells me 8213480 1K blocks, and that's
> > definitely more than i have access to.  so far, fdisk and
> > /proc/partitions appear to give me precisely correct values.
> >
>
> Is the extra space being chewed up by FAT tables?

  i don't see how since the FAT tables would be *inside* a partition,
and i'm trying to figure out the total usable size of the raw device.

rday

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