size from df -kh vs size from fdisk -l

Steve Berg sberg at mississippi.com
Tue Apr 21 14:59:04 UTC 2009


> I asked this questiion in another thread
> "f10 liveinstall cd trashed my main fc5"
>
> but i think it got lost in my longish  msg
>
> # fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36703934464 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4462 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        2676    21494938+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            2677        3163     3911827+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda3            3164        4462    10434217+  83  Linux
>
> sda1 size  ~ 21.5 G
>
> but using df:
> # df -kh
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb6             7.7G  5.6G  1.8G  77% /
> tmpfs                1014M     0 1014M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1             190M  5.6M  175M   4% /mnt/sda1
>
> sda1 size = 190M
>
> how possible?
> advice, help on further  diagnosing this?
> Jack

Aren't the "Blocks" listed from fdisk 512 and not 1024?  Your numbers
would agree quite nicely if so.

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