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 now want to install a later version. But when i formatted the drive with both fdisk and cfdisk they had both created 253mb partitions called sda1.
*fdisk only create partitions.
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. Nevertheless, the number you have posted suggest there could be some problems with the USB drive. Try reformatting with 'mke2fs -c -c' to check for bad blocks.