On 09/13/2011 12:41 PM, Anton Aylward pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Otto Rodusek said the following on 09/13/2011 11:14 AM:
I have a very unusual problem where fdisk reports one size BUT df reports a TOTALLY different and unexpected size. Besides doing a full backup, repartition, reformat and restore, is there anything else I can try first??
Apples and Cucumbers. No even the shape, not even both a kind of fruit. Two totally different things.
Not all file systems are on disk.
When a file system is in a disk partition it doesn't have to fill the whole partition
When a file system does fill a whole partition the amount of data will not be the same size as the partition because of the structural metadata that is part the file system.
Sorry, what is your problem? Based on the data I don't see a problem.
When creating a filesystem about 5% is held back for root in case of problems. It used to be 10% but with today's much larger drives it was reduced. Therefore the filesystem will always be smaller then the partition. Nothing to worry about here. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org