Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:48:45 -0500 From: "David van Geyn" <dataiv-NOSPAM-200309@noc.peon.net> To: "Omer Faruk Sen" <freebsd@faruk.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 200gb hard drive? Message-ID: <004101c3afa7$b0f48540$0202a8c0@CMBNR01> References: <20031120202303.10773.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org>
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Omer, this is because a percentage of your disk space is reserved automatically by FreeBSD. I believe that it automatically reserves 8% of your disk space. You can adjust this by using 'tunefs'. Try 'man tunefs' to find out how to use tunefs. David van Geyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Omer Faruk Sen" <freebsd@faruk.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:23 PM Subject: 200gb hard drive? > Hi > > I have installed a new hard drive to my FreeBSD system. Hard drive is 200gb > but > when I fdisk and disklabel the output of "df -h" is something like that: > > /dev/ad1s1e 183G 2.0K 169G 0% /disk2 > > Here as you can see I can only use 169GB of it. Bios has seen my harddrive > as 190GB also dmesg output is like that: > > ad1: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JB-00DUA3> [387621/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 > > My question is what happened to 190-169 gb or maybe after some filesystem > information reservation what happened to 183-169 gb? > > By the way I have used default newfs parameters -b 16384 -f 2048. I don't > know if that helps... > > REGARDS... > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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