From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 1:18:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AB4F14C84 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 15619 invoked from network); 17 Apr 1999 08:16:04 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 1999 08:16:04 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990417011349.00b06f10@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:16:07 -0700 To: Jack Freelander , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: space missing? Cc: Jef , jason@hurricane.cs.miami.edu In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:31 PM 4/16/99 , Jack Freelander wrote: >I have successfully installed and mounted a new 20.4 gig drive on rabbit. >It makes sense for it to have 19324342 1K blocks... but why am I missing >about 2 gigs of space? Here is the appropriate line from df: > >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/wd2s1e 19324342 1 17778394 0% /space > >Should I have used a larger block size perhaps?? That wouldn't have helped this. When you newfs, 8% of a disk is put aside to 1) help reduce fragmentation 2) give some extra breathing room. Only root processes are allowed to go into this reserve area. When they do, df shows > 100% capacity. 'man newfs' for changing the set-aside percentage. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message