From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 12:29: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C330737B400 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6BF9718F9; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6336A18F8; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:31:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive Space - Am I Getting All I Should? In-Reply-To: <005b01c20b7e$6873f590$1b01a8c0@TAGALONG> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > supposed to be an 80G drive but FBSD only sees 72G. :) I don't know > how it works but one never seems to get all the space that is > advertised in a drive. I suspect it has something to do with total > storage capacity vs. formatted storage capacity but that's a topic for > another discussion. Thanks for pointing me back in the right > direction. Through in a little BIOS fudging and you're about right. On IDE drives expect the actual size to be +/- 10% of the advertised space. These days it's usually on the minus side. :) But I remeber getting 1.4 GB off of a 1.2GB drive once. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message