From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 00:24:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10414 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:24:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA10286 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z7ECb-0001Wt-00; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:23:09 +0200 Message-ID: <19980814092309.C5816@cityip.co.za> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:23:09 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Mike Ekholm , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: missing space Mail-Followup-To: Mike Ekholm , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Mike Ekholm on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 11:06:19PM -0500 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 at 23:06 SAT, Mike Ekholm wrote: > > i have a new hard drive, just disklabeled it and newfsit and stuff.when i > mounted it,and did a 'df' it said thst the fs is 526087 1-K blocks big, > thich is corect. it said the fs has 474800 1-k blocks avalable. but none > are used. where is the other 40MB at? Most Unix filesystems hold back a small percentage of space from normal users. This is important to the way in which Unix filesystems handle fragmentation (which, BTW, mean something different than fragmentation of a FAT-type filesystem). See the man page for tunefs(8), specifically the -m flag. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message