> 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?
> or is this wrong ? I guess so, because when I tar the whole thing,
> I'll see:
>
> venus:~# tar -cf cdrom.tar /cdrom/
> venus:~# ls -l cdrom.tar
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 297768960 May 29 07:40 cdrom.tar
>
> but this would mean that 1 block on cdrom is 3093.510638 bytes each.
> hmm ... where is the error?
>
When you do a tar, that's everything but a close approximation to the
real space used, especially if you have many (small) files in that tree.
Tar creates a 512byte header for each file and pads the last block to
512 byte blocks. A closer approximation would be using cpio, that one
only uses a small header and pads the file to the next even boundary.
Check with /usr/include/tar.h.
Klaus
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