From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 16:25:23 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 0930E37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:25:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB6143F43 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:25:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id h140PF5D018568; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:25:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from 192.85.47.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user imap) by new.host.name with HTTP; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:25:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <31133.192.85.47.2.1044318316.squirrel@new.host.name> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:25:16 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: 200Gig disk shrinks to 124 upon install From: "Kevin Stevens" To: In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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? How current is your motherboard? If it doesn't support the ATA-6 spec there's a limit of 120-140GB (don't remember the details. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message