From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 16:33:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461DE16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:33:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6154043D49 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:33:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) j0RGXCQO032114; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:33:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A0EE961C3; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:34:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:34:03 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Anon Message-ID: <20050127163403.GA50507@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <41F9137B.7020003@Phreaker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41F9137B.7020003@Phreaker.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get more HDD space? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:33:15 -0000 --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:14:51PM +0100, Anon wrote: > I have an 200gb harddrive, it says 180gb (due to different size=20 > standards) but when Mounted I only have 160gb! > I heard FreeBSD is "taking away" a few % of the HDD, for something...=20 > 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.=20 If you need more space, better buy an extra harddrive. Roland --=20 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 --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB+Rf7EnfvsMMhpyURAnJ0AJoCrbnlkuTYt3VKGfQsu670Ok5J/wCgrw5Y heY8MBxPGkHtG/Q7ZWWEzN0= =fsij -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v--