Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 29 May 1996 15:27:14 -0600 (CST) | From | Aaron Ucko <> | Subject | Re: cdrom: "df" != real size ? |
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>:: 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. > >Not necessarily. I once got a CD with 8 KB on it - just for free, >with some advertizing on it. Not every CD has 600MB of useful data.
True -- AOL CDROMs use only 1 or 2 MB -- but even tar isn't inefficient enough to turn 94 K into several hundred megabytes!
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