24 Mar
2006
24 Mar
'06
6:37 a.m.
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:11 +0530, Nikhil Marathe wrote:
I have an iball 256mb usb drive. I had previously installed slax on it and
But whenever i mount it df -ha shows that the partition is only 179mb.
What filesystem did you create i.e. ext2, ext3, jfs, xfs, reiserfs? The journaling fs have an overhead - about 33MB for ext3 and reiserfs.
Unless you have created a smaller partition, the most likely chances are that you have used a journal Filesystem.
It is very *un-advisable* to create a Journaled FS on a Flash Disk Because of the higher overhead of I/O operations. You will lose a LOT of mileage on your flash drive. Stick to ext2 on the flash drives if you value the life of your drive, otherwise expect it to give problems fast.
-Erle