Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:35:33 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Caleb Collins <kbcaleb@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terabyte drive Message-ID: <20071130183533.GG92323@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <c6da4ee50711300520y187bd772pc72ef6e31cb7bb0b@mail.gmail.com> References: <c6da4ee50711300520y187bd772pc72ef6e31cb7bb0b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:20:51AM -0600, Caleb Collins wrote: > So I just installed a new terabyte WD drive and I am showing 902GB on the > new drive, which I expect thank to the fact they use 1000 instead of 1024. > However the problem I am seeing is that I am losing 72Gb from the start on > the fresh drive. > > /dev/ad4s1c 902G 4.0K 830G 0% /media2 > > As you can see I am using 0% however I have already lost 72Gb. Is there a > flag I am missing for newfs for new large drives or is this a bug with df. > It is all in the documentation and FAQs. I believe what you are now seeing is the difference between the total space and the space available to be written by a user process. There is an amount (8%, if I remember correctly) on each filesystem that is reserved for use by the system/root. You can change that but should not. ////jerry > FreeBSD fellat.rackerx.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 > 11:05:30 UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP > i386 > _______________________________________________ > 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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