From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 17:37:47 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 9335E16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:37:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A91943D39 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:37:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2228269A39; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:37:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:37:44 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: synrat Message-Id: <20040623133744.24715e84.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <40D9BEAD.8010607@wirewalk.org> References: <40D9A9BB.1070707@wirewalk.org> <40D9AB8E.1070507@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> <40D9BEAD.8010607@wirewalk.org> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 17:37:47 -0000 synrat wrote: > 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 ?? No, that's not true. Where did you hear that? > 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" > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com