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From: robin@rucus.ru.ac.za (Robin Lunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 850k free on 1440 formatted diskette?
Date: 7 Aug 1995 11:59:37 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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Hi there,
I did the following:
fdformat fd0
disklabel -w -B fd0 fd1440
newfs fd0
and yet df -k gives:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/fd0a 855 686 100 87% /mnt
How come I only get 855k?
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