Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
--On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:36:41 -0500 Brett Bolen <hbbolen at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Where do I find the initial size of the partition? df
> gives me one number ( in 1k blocks), and fdisk gives me another
> number.
>
> In fact, dump2efs give me a third number.
>
> here's my numbers for my real hdisk ( not the example I gave above):
>
> df -> 15480832 ( 1K blocks) => 15480832
> fdisk -> 15727635 => 15727635
> dumpe2fs -> 3931908 ( 4k blocks) => 15727632
>
> What is the correct way to determine these numbers?
sfdisk -s -uM ${partition} # Alter -u to taste for appropriate units
df will give use _usable_ space. Filesystems have overhead. I have no idea
why dumpe2fs is slightly smaller - I must assume that the filesystem didn't
use all space on the partition for some reason.
--
Carson