From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 15:10:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9311D37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:10:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1287E43F79 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:10:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhyde@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (h00055da7108f.ne.client2.attbi.com[66.30.192.113]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <200302032310320010088mhie>; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:10:32 +0000 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:10:50 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; delsp=yes; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: 200Gig disk shrinks to 124 upon install From: Ben Hyde To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I casually installed a 200 Gig dis on a 4.3-stable freebsd system. I quickly followed the directions in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks- adding.html section "12.3.2.2 Dedicated". df -g now reports that the resulting disk is only 124 Gig, so I'm sad and confused. I expected some shrinkage, but not quite so much. ideas? This is what disklabel reports... # disklabel ad3 # /dev/ad3c: type: unknown disk: amnesiac label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 266305 sectors/unit: 268435455 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 268435455 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 266305*) f: 268435455 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 266305*) thanks for any help - ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message