Missing space on flash drive
Tim
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Mon Nov 30 04:18:40 UTC 2009
.:: [F]usion[S]tream ::. -- online wrote:
> The total size is mostly correct with regards to Sandisk's 16GB
> actually being 16billion byes. What is a new filesystem displaying
> false used space readings? What is happening?
When creating a file system, some bytes are reserved for overhead. How
many bytes depends on different things: The default reserved for that
file system, or you picking a different amount. If you use different
tools to deal with the file system, they might use different defaults.
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