From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 21:34:38 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 5716516A420; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:34:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D825243D46; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:34:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id jBTLYaiU001274; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:34:36 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id jBTLYaSH001273; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:34:36 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200512292134.jBTLYaSH001273@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: tlp@liquidx.org (Travis Poppe) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:34:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200512291232.01100.tlp@liquidx.org> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Harddrive size being reported incorrectly? 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: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:34:38 -0000 > > On Thursday 29 December 2005 12:22 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Now, I understand that harddrive manufacturers measure things differently > > > (1000kbytes per gbyte rather than 1024, or something like that) than > > > expected, but I've been told by a few people that I should be getting > > > around 305-312GB of available space after the drive has been formatted. > > > > They didn't do their arithmetic. > > > > When you slice and partition the drive, there will likely be a handful > > of sectors that don't round out to an even value so those are dropped. > > Then, when you do the newfs, some space is taken by the spare superblocks > > and finally the system reserves 8%. So, I would say you are getting > > it all. > > 289GB is before the 8% reservation. I actually turned that off with tunefs. I strongly suggest you do not do that - at least completely off. Reduce it some, if you like, but keep some. ////jerry > > Thanks to all who responded so quickly, makes me feel better about filling the > drive up. Wanted to verify this before using the drive as to not end up > having to re-newfs it in the future to gain back any possible unused space. > > Thanks, > -- > Travis Poppe > IRC: tlp @ irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ > 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" >