Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:18:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: "D. Goss" <lists@dylangoss.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 36.4GB drive formats out to 32.8GB? what am I missing please Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0506121415170.21@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <3A0E3262-4941-48F5-9532-5E45359690F1@dylangoss.com> References: <3A0E3262-4941-48F5-9532-5E45359690F1@dylangoss.com>
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> > U320 15k > 36.4GB formatted capacity > (IBM part 06P5776 / 06P5778, with Seagate drive ST336753LC) 36.4pseudomarketblahgigabytes=36400000000 bytes 1 real gigabyte is 2^30=1073741824 bytes and that's means your disk has 33.9 real Gigabytes. rest are what's used up by inodes and bitmaps. use -i option in newfs to set much less inodes than default unless you yould like to store really lot of small files. as it's your /misc directory i think there will be mostly quite large file. another thing is 5% reserved space that can be changed by tunefs > > 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" >
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