From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 12 12:19:08 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 5E08C16A41C for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:19:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (chylonia.3miasto.net [213.192.74.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8538343D55 for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:19:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (wojtek@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by chylonia.3miasto.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5CCIwhj020389; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:18:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by chylonia.3miasto.net (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id j5CCIwiI008262; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:18:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: chylonia.3miasto.net: wojtek owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:18:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar X-X-Sender: wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net To: "D. Goss" In-Reply-To: <3A0E3262-4941-48F5-9532-5E45359690F1@dylangoss.com> Message-ID: References: <3A0E3262-4941-48F5-9532-5E45359690F1@dylangoss.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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, 12 Jun 2005 12:19:08 -0000 > > 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" >