confusion with gparted

[charles zeitler]

Do what thou wilt
shall  be the whole  of the Law.


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, François Patte
<francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote:
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> Bonjour,
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> I have an external usb HD (500Go) which I partionned (with fdisk) like this:
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> /dev/sdx1 ~20Go: ntfs
> /dev/sdx2 rest of disk: ext3
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> If I use df -h, I get:
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> /dev/sdb2             439G   44G  374G  11% /media/linux
> /dev/sdb1              21G   66M   20G   1% /media/ntfs
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> (today x=b!) the total 439+21= 460 so missing 40Go
> François Patte
>


 to add to your confusion ;>) ;

harddrive manufactureres use 1KB = 1000 bytes,
fdisk & df use  1KB = 1024 bytes.

charles zeitler


Love is the law, love under will.