Re: cdrom: "df" != real size ?

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 31 May 1996 02:43:59 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 30 May 1996, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:

> >
> > Appx %5 of the filesystem is reserved for root only.
> >
>
> but not on a CD-rom, that would be useless.
>

Hmm, seem's to me that the CD can down right lie about it's size (in the
fs header), and a SCSI cd can report a nearly correct value, that's up to
56 (I think it was) sectors ? blocks ? wrong.
Bryn

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