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Date:      Fri, 9 May 2003 10:19:12 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Improper size of slice/partition?
Message-ID:  <20030509101442.X21162-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0305081314080.8242-100000@shell.core.com>

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On Thu, 8 May 2003, Steven Lake wrote:

> 	Hi all.  Just added a second drive to my system mounted as
> /drive2, however, when I do a df -h to see how the drive is mounted, it
> says that I have a 73G partition size, but only 67G available and 0k used.
> I could understand having 73G after newfs formatted the drive and Fdisk
> made the partition, but only having access to 67G on an 80G Western
> Digital drive seems a bit silly to me.  Anyone know what's going wrong
> with this?  I did the Fdisk and slice through sysinstall and it said all
> was fine.  Anyone know why this is acting this way?  I want my whole 73G
> for my drive.

man tunefs (look for the -m option, read carefully the "Note..." about
performance).

This topic is probably also in the FreeBSD FAQ's.

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au

        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/





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