[plug] Missing storage space

Senectus . senectus at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 21:48:32 WST 2005


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Your likely to find that there is a .Trash-username folder with your
deleted items in it :-P



On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:20:01 +0800, Jim Householder
<nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In order to make my laptop a little less accessible to the casual snoop
> I have made a 256MB USBKey mount automatically during booting.  Works
> fine.  If missing the only access is for root to fix the problem.
> Initially I thought to put /home on it, but then decided that the write
> life of the device would not be up to it.  As I only have 230MB free on
> hda I will put less volatile data on it.
> 
> 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?
> 
> TIA
> Jim
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