From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 5 19:43:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8E64116A41F for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 19:43:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsdlists@thingysrealm.myftp.org) Received: from thingysrealm.myftp.org (81-86-226-36.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.226.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 893CC43D1F for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 19:43:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsdlists@thingysrealm.myftp.org) Received: (qmail 92313 invoked by uid 1011); 5 Jun 2005 19:42:57 -0000 Received: from 10.0.0.2 by rackmount.orbsrealm.com (envelope-from , uid 1010) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.83/781. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(10.0.0.2):. Processed in 0.248065 secs); 05 Jun 2005 19:42:57 -0000 X-Antivirus-Thingysrealm.myftp.org-Mail-From: freebsdlists@thingysrealm.myftp.org via rackmount.orbsrealm.com X-Antivirus-Thingysrealm.myftp.org: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(10.0.0.2):. Processed in 0.248065 secs Process 92308) Received: from unknown (HELO anubis) (freebsdlists@thingysrealm.myftp.org@10.0.0.2) by thingysrealm.myftp.org with SMTP; 5 Jun 2005 19:42:56 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:43:23 +0100 From: Grant To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050605204323.4cd36003.freebsdlists@thingysrealm.myftp.org> In-Reply-To: <3A0E3262-4941-48F5-9532-5E45359690F1@dylangoss.com> References: <3A0E3262-4941-48F5-9532-5E45359690F1@dylangoss.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 36.4GB drive formats out to 32.8GB? what am I missing please X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 19:43:27 -0000 On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 11:44:19 -0700 "D. Goss" wrote: > I am adding some drives to an IBM xSeries 345. I recently picked up > (via eBay) an IBM packaged Seagate drive, all with the proper IBM > part numbers as: > > U320 15k > 36.4GB formatted capacity > (IBM part 06P5776 / 06P5778, with Seagate drive ST336753LC) > > Looking up both the IBM part numbers and the Seagate part numbers via > Google, I consistantly get that the drive's formatted capacity is > 36.4GB. > > When partitioned either in "safe" or "dd" mode (via sysinstall) and > set to use the entire disk as one slice, once the drive is mounted I > show: > > # df -m > /dev/da1s1 33617 0 30928 0% /misc > > # df -h > /dev/da1s1 33G 4.0K 30G 0% /misc > > I'm seeing approx. 30,600MB (32.8GB?) free - > > Is this correct? > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > 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" Hey, I think the problem that you are seeing is due to freebsd reserving some space for the root user. Somewhere in the handbook is says when you format a drive there will be around 10% of the drive reserved for root. I think you can change that number but you will have to look in the handbook for that. Hope this helps >From Grant.