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> References: <41F9137B.7020003@Phreaker.net>
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--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--
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