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From: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Missing: 5 MB on a Unix PC.
Message-ID: <316@zorch.UU.NET>
Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 15:51:06 EST
Article-I.D.: zorch.316
Posted: Sun Nov  1 15:51:06 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 01:49:32 EST
References: <381@sdcjove.CAM.UNISYS.COM> <8700198@eta.ETA.COM>
Reply-To: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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In article <8700198@eta.ETA.COM> lm@eta.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
#In article <381@sdcjove.CAM.UNISYS.COM> john@CAM.UNISYS.COM (John Dempsey) writes:
#>I think I'm missing 5 MB of memory and would like to know why.  When I type:
#I didn't read this closely but I'll bet you're forgetting about /dev/swap which
#lives on a different partition of your disk.  
#Sorry 5 meg.

Close.  Actually, I'd say that the swap space is 4M (remember, 4M max memory
size?) and the 5th is his alternate sectors (for bad sector replacement.)
Thus, on the 67M drive, you get 60M total space since you need 3M for bad
sectors.

#Larry McVoy	uucp: ...!{uiucuxc, rosevax, meccts, ihnp4!laidbak}!eta!lmcvoy
#		arpa: eta!lmcvoy@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu   or   lm@arizona.edu


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