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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:57:24 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Caleb Collins <kbcaleb@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Terabyte drive
Message-ID:  <20071130135724.GA24534@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <c6da4ee50711300520y187bd772pc72ef6e31cb7bb0b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <c6da4ee50711300520y187bd772pc72ef6e31cb7bb0b@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:20:51AM -0600, Caleb Collins wrote:
> So I just installed a new terabyte WD drive and I am showing 902GB on the
> new drive, which I expect thank to the fact they use 1000 instead of 1024.
> However the problem I am seeing is that I am losing 72Gb from the start on
> the fresh drive.
> 
> /dev/ad4s1c    902G    4.0K    830G     0%    /media2
> 
> As you can see I am using 0% however I have already lost 72Gb. Is there a
> flag I am missing for newfs for new large drives or is this a bug with df.


See the FAQ:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL





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Erik Trulsson
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