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  • Observed space abnormality while mounting disks

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    Hi Team,

    I found some space abnormaility while mounting disks.

    I will try to explain my query with an example.

    Initially I created one disk as follows

    Command (m for help): n
    First cylinder (4171-4865, default 4171):
    Using default value 4171
    Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (4171-4865, default 4865): +820M

    /dev/sda11 4171 4271 811251 83 Linux

    I formatted the disk:

    mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda11

    In parted -l it is showing as:
    Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
    11 34.3GB 35.1GB 831MB logical ext3

    Now I Mounted that disk:

    mount /dev/sda11 /test1

    df -h output:

    /dev/sda11 780M 17M 724M 3% /test1

    Please find my query as below:

    Allocated disk: 820M
    showing 831MB in parted -L output (First abnormality)

    after formatting disk, I know 5% will be reserved for super user i.e 41MB

    820-41=779 is allocated in /dev/sda11, showing used is 17M(say it nondataoverhead),
    Upto here everything is fine.

    Now
    780MB-17MB=763MB(it must show this much free space),
    But it is showing 724MB =>Means 39MB losing here, without any reason.

    For 1GB disk we are losing 45MB

    Then coming to 1 TB disk-->4510010=45000MB=43.94GB
    10TB disk -->430GB(almost 0.5TB)
    where this space is going on, what is the purpose of this disappeared space??

    (I didn't find this much utilization is AIX, it is allocating 99.99% space while mounting)

    Hope I am clear, Waiting for your valuable suggestions.

    Regards
    Satish

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