From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 12:50:19 2003 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 2C10B16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:50:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02D643FDF for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:50:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from ec.rr.com (cpe-024-211-231-149.ec.rr.com [24.211.231.149]) hAKKoBNW025561; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:50:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FBD28F1.70601@ec.rr.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:49:53 -0500 From: Jason User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Omer Faruk Sen References: <20031120202303.10773.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20031120202303.10773.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 200gb hard drive? 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: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:50:19 -0000 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > 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 [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" > Wd uses an old system to measure drive capicity. For a wd drive 200gb= 200,000,000,000 bytes, but to any person fimilar with binary and decimal numbers there 200gb=186.26gb~2^37.54bytes. You also have to have a file system, with takes up more room with more space to map.