Date: 08 Dec 2004 19:13:34 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: thursday <thursday@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: idiot 5.3 disk question Message-ID: <444qiw1g7l.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20041208233913.GA28751@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <20041208233913.GA28751@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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thursday <thursday@sdf.lonestar.org> writes: > Greets, > > I haven't been following FreeBSD much at all lately, having gotten a Linx admin job, so forgive me: > > I'm installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a new machine. I've added a second disk, and 80Gig Maxtor IDE drive. I use sysinstall to partition it, and run disklabel/newfs, etc, mounting it as "/storage". > > In sysinstall, it shows the disk as being 78G - that's fine. 1024 != 1000. > > However, when I run df -h it tells me the disk's capacity is 74G, there's 4.0K in use (it's empty), but only 68G is available. I'm just confused about where the 12G went. > > Anyone have any helpful pointers to help me understand? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL > > Also, what's the ".snap/" directory for? man mksnap_ffs
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