Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:23:09 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Mike Ekholm <ekholm@visi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: missing space Message-ID: <19980814092309.C5816@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9808132305040.26693-100000@isis.visi.com>; from Mike Ekholm on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 11:06:19PM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9808132305040.26693-100000@isis.visi.com>
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 at 23:06 SAT, Mike Ekholm wrote: > > i have a new hard drive, just disklabeled it and newfsit and stuff.when i > mounted it,and did a 'df' it said thst the fs is 526087 1-K blocks big, > thich is corect. it said the fs has 474800 1-k blocks avalable. but none > are used. where is the other 40MB at? Most Unix filesystems hold back a small percentage of space from normal users. This is important to the way in which Unix filesystems handle fragmentation (which, BTW, mean something different than fragmentation of a FAT-type filesystem). See the man page for tunefs(8), specifically the -m flag. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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