Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:08:09 +0100 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: How to calculate bsdlabel size Message-ID: <200402051908.09836@harrymail>
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--Boundary-02=_JaoIAZJhicy+pus Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline Hi all, since I got no answer on questions@ I' mforwarding it to current@, the syst= em=20 is a 5.2.1-RC =2D--------- Forwarded Message ---------- On Wednesday 04 February 2004 21:56, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 21:31, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I manually created disklabels with a size number of 10485760. > > I wanted to have 5 GigaByte big labels, so 5*1024*1024*1024/512=3D10485= 760. > > Now after doing a newfs and mounting the new label, df -h reports a size > > of 4.8GB. > > Can someone please enlighten me? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Harry > > Per default, 5% of the space is reserved for root, so that in the worse > case you can always write at least *something* to it as root. When running > out of disk space you can actually get a 'df' of 106% or so because of > this. It's a FAQ. But it's not my problem. What you mean results in limited available space, but doesn't have any influence on Size summary. Btw I did a newfs with -m 0 so it can't be the reaseon. =2DHarry > HTH > > Dan =2D------------------------------------------------------ --Boundary-02=_JaoIAZJhicy+pus Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAIoaJBylq0S4AzzwRAgiMAJ9cyoHs6gHwnZaQ7CweQbzXHPuNMQCfaXQI XQr7yudGJjHyjJzN0HxOb6w= =GiPN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_JaoIAZJhicy+pus--
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