[D-community-newbie] mke2fs- what is largefile?

[Chris Lale]

> 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)

-- 
Chris.