Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:22:44 -0500 From: Sam Suh <sam@bigstudios.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk space shrink? Message-ID: <3C190E14.E0442E28@bigstudios.com>
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Hi, everyone. I have parculiar problem which I didn't noticed until now. My boss came up with idea of low cost RAID 5 solution about two months ago. I found Adapatec 2400A and WD Caviar 1000BB(93GB drive). I told him I will recycle one of box that is not being used and turn it into RAID 5 box. However, despite my reasonable explannation of benefit of using freebsd, my boss made a point of telling me to use it on NT (Duh!). So, I tried to create the box under NT. Damn thing couldn't do the job right. Under testing, it kept on crashing like hell. Around 500MB, it will give me blue screen of death. It turns out "scsiport.sys" file that needs is defunct and I have to ask M$ to send me the patched version of it. With 250 US dollars a incident, I wasn't interested. I finally had with it and told my boss I can't do it with NT. With his permission this time, I installed 4.4 stable with Samba 2.2 on it. It just went without a hitch. However, I noticed one big thing. Under NT, the drives are correctly listed as having 186 GB space. I use one drive as hot spare and RAID 5 on other 3; hence 186 GB. Now, I have it on the freebsd, it only reports 164 GB of free space. Why is it happening? In a installation phase, I have selected da0a drive and selected use entire drive option. sysinstall gave me two unused space one top and bottom and almost all drive in the middle, which I think is my actual RAID. Bottom unused space is only 20MB, and top is about the same. So, even if I discount it, I should still have 185GB for sure, and I don't have it. Anyone with ideas? I been doing installation of freebsd on 10-20GB drives but this is first time I tried to mount on 100< drives. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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