Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:03:24 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?) Message-ID: <20070203220323.GA3668@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200702021839.29502.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> References: <200702021839.29502.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 06:39:29PM -0500, Peter wrote: > I am installing a new 6.2 STABLE system and I am troubled by the amount > of available disk space I'm getting on one of my IDE devices: > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > ... > ... > /dev/ad1a 289G 4.0K 266G 0% /ad1 > > This drive is 320 GB by the manufacturer and thus I should theoretically > have 305 GBs. This is confirmed by dmesg: > > ad1: 305244MB <WDC WD3200JB-00KFA0 08.05J08> at ata0-slave UDMA33 This is well covered in the FreeBSD FAQ and answered many times in this Email list. Do some checking. ////jerry > > Steps: > > # fdisk -i /dev/ad1 > # bsdlabel -w /dev/ad1 > # newfs /dev/ad1a > # mount /dev/ad1a /ad1 > > Info: > > # bsdlabel /dev/ad1 > # /dev/ad1: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 625140319 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > c: 625140335 0 unused 0 0 > > Thanks in advance for any pointers, > > PM > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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