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Date:      Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:10:17 GMT
From:      James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        otto@hol.gr
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <199606091110.LAA01682@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199606080026.WAA26626@prometheus.hol.gr> (message from Syntichakis Christopher on Fri, 7 Jun 1996 22:26:15 -0200 (GMT))

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>>>>> Syntichakis Christopher <otto@hol.gr> writes:

[re formatting floppies under FreeBSD]

> So , the 3,5" HD disk has only 851968 bytes free....

>From a posting on Usenet a while back:-

:From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
:Subject: Re: 850k free on 1440 formatted diskette?
:Date: 8 Aug 1995 13:02:41 +0200
:Message-ID: <407g8h$obf@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
:
:>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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James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk         | jraynard@freebsd.org




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