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From: lacomb@SIERRA.STANFORD.EDU ("Lloyd J. Lacomb")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: missing disc space
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Date: 22 Aug 88 23:19:35 GMT
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Now that the debug partition seems to be well understood, I am still puzzled
by the missing space on the disc.  I have a 380 Mb disc, and when I do a df
I get the following:

Filesystem                  Type kbytes    use  avail %use  Mounted on
/dev/root                   efs   15591   9504   6087  61%  /
/debug                      dbg   58196   5508  52688   9%  /debug
/dev/usr                    efs  236529 132029 104500  56%  /usr
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL                            310316

My question is if df reports only 310 Mb including the swap space what
happened to the 70 Mb (plus or minus the 8 Mb of core memory) that my disc 
is supposed to have.  I know that df does not count correctly and that 
a 380 Mb disc does not really have 380 Mb(what a racket!!!) but it
still seems that I'm missing a lot of Mb.  I used to think that most 
of the missing Mb was occupied by the swap space but that appears not to be 
the case.  Can anyone clear this up.


					Thanks,
					Lloyd LaComb
					lacomb@sierra.stanford.edu