From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 12:35:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736C616A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:35:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F212F43D48 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:35:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 14897 invoked by uid 0); 19 Aug 2004 12:35:56 -0000 Received: from user-69-73-60-132.knology.net (HELO ?10.0.0.68?) (69.73.60.132) by smtp6.knology.net with SMTP; 19 Aug 2004 12:35:56 -0000 In-Reply-To: <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com> References: <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <417F9703-F1DC-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:35:30 -0500 To: duncan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large Disks lose loads of diskspace X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:35:36 -0000 On Aug 19, 2004, at 6:17 AM, duncan wrote: > I installed 2 new 200gb harddrives lately. Both show up in bios as > 200gb, on boot they are shown as 190gb (probably the 1000->1024 > conversion), but when I create a filesystem they are only 180gb. > Now, I can live with a 20gb loss, but when I check the disks free > space, they have only 166gb free with 0 gb used. Could be me, but I > find 34gb a bit excessive. I hope anyone has a clue as to what I'm > doing wrong. > > Hope someone knows what is going on. newfs(1) says: > -m free-space > The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the > minimum > free space threshold. The default value used is defined > by > MINFREE from , currently 8%. See tunefs(8) > for > more details on how to set this option. 180 - 8% = 165.6 -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Top posters will not be shown the honor of a reply.