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synrat wrote:

> Filesystem                 Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/vinum/data             67G   2.0K    62G     0%    /data
>
> Does this look weird or what ??

Nope, looks fine to me :)

> This is a mirrored vinum volume created from 2 partitions fully taking 
> up 2 73gb drives.  vinum shows this as 68gb volume, which I guess is 
> ok considering kb>mb>gb calculation rip-off, but losing 10gb after 
> newfsing is something new. The only other thing I did is turn on soft 
> updates, but I wouldn't expect that too 'steal' 10 gb also. anyone  ?

5gb :)

UFS keep x% of the drive unavailable from anyone but root as part of the
filesystem optimisations, you can turn this off if you want with tunefs
but expect a performance hit from it.

Mike Woods
IT Technician