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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 850k free on 1440 formatted diskette?
Date: 8 Aug 1995 06:11:37 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <404v79$839@quagga.ru.ac.za>, Robin Lunn <robin@rucus.ru.ac.za> wrote:
>
>Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/fd0a         855      686      100    87%    /mnt
>
>How come I only get 855k?

    Was the floppy previously mounted, and did you remember to unmount
it before formatting it?
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org