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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 850k free on 1440 formatted diskette?
Date: 8 Aug 1995 13:02:41 +0200
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Robin Lunn <robin@rucus.ru.ac.za> wrote:
>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?
You've reserved too much space for i-nodes.
newfs -l 1 -i 65536 -t 2 -u 18 fd0
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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