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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=3D10485760.
Now after doing a newfs and mounting the new label, df -h reports a size of=
=20
4.8GB.
Can someone please enlighten me?

Thanks,

=2DHarry

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