[plug] Missing storage space

[Adam Davin]

Hi Jim,

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:20:01 +0800
Jim Householder <nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> Hi
> 
<snip>
 
> The numbers df gives me for it do not appear consistent.  I get
> /dev/sda1  245409  2062  230676  1%  /media/removable
> 
> Now I expect the 245409 since manufacturers and computers use
> different  definitions of MB.  However I would expect total to equal
> used +  available.  What happened to the missing 12671 blocks? 
> Filesystem  overhead perhaps?
> 
Not sure if this will help but...

try:
df -h
The -h is for human readable and might give you something more like what
you expect... 

Regards, 

Adam Davin