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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================