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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:53:18 +0100
From:      Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>
To:        danny@ricin.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to calculate bsdlabel size
Message-ID:  <200402042253.23181@harrymail>
In-Reply-To: <200402042156.06623.danny@ricin.com>
References:  <200402042131.40335@harrymail> <200402042156.06623.danny@ricin.com>

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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 21:56, Danny Pansters wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 February 2004 21:31, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I manually created disklabels with a size number of 10485760.
> > I wanted to have 5 GigaByte big labels, so 5*1024*1024*1024/512=3D10485=
760.
> > Now after doing a newfs and mounting the new label, df -h reports a size
> > of 4.8GB.
> > Can someone please enlighten me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Harry
>
> Per default, 5% of the space is reserved for root, so that in the worse
> case you can always write at least *something* to it as root. When running
> out of disk space you can actually get a 'df' of 106% or so because of
> this. It's a FAQ.

But it's not my problem. What you mean results in limited available space, =
but=20
doesn't have any influence on Size summary. Btw I did a newfs with -m 0 so =
it=20
can't be the reaseon.

=2DHarry

>
> HTH
>
> Dan

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