Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:40:28 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: jumbler chi <jumbler.chi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: delete partition from MO Message-ID: <42E8B61C.8070000@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <ad513e60050727202451636e4@mail.gmail.com> References: <ad513e60050727202451636e4@mail.gmail.com>
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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--
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