Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:20:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: "D. Goss" <lists@dylangoss.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 36.4GB drive formats out to 32.8GB? what am I missing please Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0506121419200.21@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <15943E92-74D1-4D79-B285-0D6863DA9572@dylangoss.com> References: <3A0E3262-4941-48F5-9532-5E45359690F1@dylangoss.com> <42A35971.9030101@cloudview.com> <15943E92-74D1-4D79-B285-0D6863DA9572@dylangoss.com>
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> I have always seen drives format out at less but the thing that threw me was > that 36.4 was listed as "formatted capacity" - by IBM (not Seagate). This > helps though. Somehow this reminds me of the # of hotdogs in a pack vs. # of > buns. todays drives are always factory formatted and it's always "formatted capacity". in microsoft world "formatting" and "making filesystem" is commonly referred as one job which is total nonsense. > >> 2) formatting itself takes some space for superblocks etc >> > > Figured, but not much, right? > >> 3) some psace is reserved (man newfs and tunefs for info) >> > > Read those man pages and that helped a lot. I have read this before and it > wasn't retained. 8% is the kind of loss I was looking for. > > Thanks for all the quick answers. > > d. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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