Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:01:15 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Olivier Nicole" <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ivan@careytech.com.au Subject: Re: How to understand partition sizes Message-ID: <d7195cff0706042201u16a38bc1y3623ea07bebb6e31@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200706050415.l554FsDj008294@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <4664DCAB.8050107@careytech.com.au> <200706050415.l554FsDj008294@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On 04/06/07, Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: > > The /server is 9Gb smaller than I partitioned and the actual free space > > without any files in the partition is shown as 396.5Gb which is another > > 34.5Gb smaller. > > The number of disk sectors/blocks allocated to a partition at install > is reduced by the amount of space taken by the system to put file > system information (table of inodes, etc.) plus some percentage of > space kept for security reason (so the operating system can fill up > your partition by more than 100% in case of emergency). There is also the fact that your "500GB" drive is not actually 500GB. I think there is even a FAQ entry about this. -- --
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