From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 10:40:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 4BC0F16A41F for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:40:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu (c-213-160-32-54.customer.ggaweb.ch [213.160.32.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59D443D46 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:40:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06183D3; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:40:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (midgard [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92033-05; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:40:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.0.23] (mini.intranet [10.0.0.23]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1399A65; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:40:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42E8B61C.8070000@datacomm.ch> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:40:28 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jumbler chi References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig542C49C616189E24469BF15E" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at maxlor.mine.nu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: delete partition from MO X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:40:43 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig542C49C616189E24469BF15E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > then , the MO capacity is 2.6G. But the real mounted capacity is 1.2G. > [...] > What's wrong about to delete original partition and the capacity ? Nothing, works as advertised. It's a bad habit of manufacturers of backup hardware to advertise twice the capacity that their hardware actually has, because they figure that users will be able to compress their data by 50%. Your dmesg confirms this: > da1: 1243MB (1273011 1024 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 79C) Cheers Benjamin --------------enig542C49C616189E24469BF15E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC6LYggShs4qbRdeQRAiZ2AJ0V4lW3XXfvbvPfi1bCpJNFtZNMvQCdEr1U btme6dsOwxkleb1j0DKvh+4= =+YyR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig542C49C616189E24469BF15E--