Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:34:03 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Anon <goatse@Phreaker.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get more HDD space? Message-ID: <20050127163403.GA50507@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <41F9137B.7020003@Phreaker.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:14:51PM +0100, Anon wrote: > I have an 200gb harddrive, it says 180gb (due to different size > standards) but when Mounted I only have 160gb! > I heard FreeBSD is "taking away" a few % of the HDD, for something... > but how can I disable that on a harddrive? > /thanks! When a filesystem is created, 8% of the space is reserved. You can use the -m parameter to tunefs(8) to reduce this percentage of reserved space. But doing this will slow down the system. See the tunefs manual page. If you need more space, better buy an extra harddrive. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB+Rf7EnfvsMMhpyURAnJ0AJoCrbnlkuTYt3VKGfQsu670Ok5J/wCgrw5Y heY8MBxPGkHtG/Q7ZWWEzN0= =fsij -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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