Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:50:28 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Ivan Carey <ivan@careytech.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to understand partition sizes Message-ID: <20070605145028.GB73434@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4664DCAB.8050107@careytech.com.au> References: <4664DCAB.8050107@careytech.com.au>
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:46:51PM +1000, Ivan Carey wrote: > Hello, > After installing a new system on a 500Gb HDD the partition size I > allocated at install does no match the size after complete system > installation This is well covered in the FAQ and in numerous posts to this list. Check the archives. ////jerry > Disc size comes up as 476937MB > > At install I partitioned the disc: > / 2048Mb > /swap 4096Mb > /var 2048Mb > /server 440Gb > /usr 13065Mb > > After install and checking the partition sizes with KDiskFree the > partitions are: > / 1.9Gb > /var 1.9Gb > /server 431.0Gb > /usr 12.4Gb > > The /server is 9Gb smaller than I partitioned and the actual free space > without any files in the partition is shown as 396.5Gb which is another > 34.5Gb smaller. > > Am I actually seeing what is really happening or am I really loosing > 43.5Gb of space on the /server partition > > Thanks, > Ivan > > _______________________________________________ > 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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