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

I have seen this before when sell 4gb it actual 4000 Mb not 4096 Mb it the oldest trick in the book

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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
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