[D-community-newbie] mke2fs- what is largefile?
Chris Lale
chrislale at untrammelled.co.uk
Fri Jan 23 11:26:38 UTC 2009
> Used partimage to save root partition. Then resized my root partition to 6G
> from 5g. Then restored from Partimage image.
>
> Question is why does gparted indicate file size is 6g while df insits it is
> 5g?
>
> Does this have anything to do with largfile?
It may depend on what you mean by a "GigaByte". Perhaps Gparted is quoting size
in MB instead of MiB?
1 MB = 1000 kB = 1000x1000 B (ie 1000000 B)
1 MiB = 1024 kiB = 1024x1024 B (ie 1048576 B)
So 1GiB = 1024^3 Bytes (1073741824 B)
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Chris.
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