I have seen this before when sell 4gb it actual 4000 Mb not 4096 Mb it the oldest trick in the book Sent from my iPhone On 2012-01-20, at 3:32 AM, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > 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 > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux