From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 07:40:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA10068 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 07:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA09997 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 07:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ab23301; 9 Jun 96 14:39 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa28514; 9 Jun 96 14:08 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA01682; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:10:17 GMT Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:10:17 GMT Message-Id: <199606091110.LAA01682@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: otto@hol.gr CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199606080026.WAA26626@prometheus.hol.gr> (message from Syntichakis Christopher on Fri, 7 Jun 1996 22:26:15 -0200 (GMT)) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Syntichakis Christopher 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 -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org