Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:35:30 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: duncan <duncan@quadspeed.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large Disks lose loads of diskspace Message-ID: <417F9703-F1DC-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com> References: <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com>
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On Aug 19, 2004, at 6:17 AM, duncan wrote: > I installed 2 new 200gb harddrives lately. Both show up in bios as > 200gb, on boot they are shown as 190gb (probably the 1000->1024 > conversion), but when I create a filesystem they are only 180gb. > Now, I can live with a 20gb loss, but when I check the disks free > space, they have only 166gb free with 0 gb used. Could be me, but I > find 34gb a bit excessive. I hope anyone has a clue as to what I'm > doing wrong. > > Hope someone knows what is going on. newfs(1) says: > -m free-space > The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the > minimum > free space threshold. The default value used is defined > by > MINFREE from <ufs/ffs/fs.h>, currently 8%. See tunefs(8) > for > more details on how to set this option. 180 - 8% = 165.6 -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Top posters will not be shown the honor of a reply.
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