Re: cdrom: "df" != real size ?

Aaron Ucko (UCKO@vax1.rockhurst.edu)
Wed, 29 May 1996 08:48:34 -0600 (CST)


>when I type df I see:
>
>venus:~# df
>Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/hda2 985329 493077 441348 53% /
>/dev/scd0 94 94 0 100% /cdrom
>
>this does mean that there are 94x1024x1024 bytes = 94MB on CD?

Actually, it appears to mean that there are only 94 KB on the CD.
Something seems fundamentally wrong there---perhaps the CD gives
misleading information somewhere.

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