# Calculate Disk Space Overhead?

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**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [July 29, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/calculate-disk-space-overhead/857 "2008-07-29T10:10:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/calculate-disk-space-overhead/857/1 "2008-07-29T10:10:05Z")

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Hi everyone,

I was wondering, is there a way to calculate the overhead in diskspace for a table that contains column types that are only regular ints and floats. Basically I’m looking for a formula . (for the MyISAM storage type)

Thanks in advance,

Ed.