Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:09:24 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Christian Baer <christian.baer@informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geli(8) makes more room on drive Message-ID: <20060306110924.GB53437@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <duh2n7$uv8$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <duh2n7$uv8$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
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--PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:25:43AM +0100, Christian Baer wrote: +> Hi Peeps! +>=20 +> Can someone explain this? +>=20 +> I partitioned a drive (WD3200SD) to have only one big=20 +> partition (/dev/ad10s1d). Then I did this: +>=20 +> jon# newfs -O2 -U -o space -m 0 /dev/ad10s1d +> jon# mount /dev/ad10s1d /doof +> jon# df -h +> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on +> /dev/ad10s1d 289G 4.0K 289G 0% /doof +>=20 +> jon# umount /doof +> jon# geli init -s 4096 -l 256 /dev/ad10s1d +> jon# geli attach /dev/ad10s1d +> jon# newfs -O2 -U -o space -m 0 /dev/ad10s1d.eli +> [output of newfs snip...] +> jon# df -h +> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on +> /dev/ad10s1d.eli 293G 8.0K 293G 0% /doof +>=20 +> How does that work??? Geli's provider (ad10s1d.eli) uses bigger sector (4096 bytes instead of 512 bytes), which makes newfs to configure file system a bit different. You can also observe smaller number of cylinder groups, etc. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEDBhkForvXbEpPzQRAuzbAKC3PKf9+FSQfHfCSlIJ0Fvo21AOtQCg3Q9+ PxsF55+06xc8iBZhPnVx7uw= =oOsN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI--
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