From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 17:35:10 2004 Return-Path: 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 3686D16A4CF for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:35:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from frodo.aecom.yu.edu (frodo.aecom.yu.edu [129.98.1.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEAF43D2F for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:35:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from synrat@wirewalk.org) Received: from wirewalk.org (kgb.rit.aecom.yu.edu [129.98.4.95]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frodo.aecom.yu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38C61B38 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40D9BEAD.8010607@wirewalk.org> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:32:29 -0400 From: synrat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40D9A9BB.1070707@wirewalk.org> <40D9AB8E.1070507@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <40D9AB8E.1070507@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: losing disk space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:35:10 -0000 thanx guys. learn something new every day. I actually noticed that my smaller volumes display the same 'discrepancy'..., but it only became a concern after 'loosing' 10gb :). hehe. should've realized that myself right away. is this true though that soft updates use additional disk space ?? Mike Woods wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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"