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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:26:36 +0200
From:      Stevan Tiefert <stevan.tiefert@freenet.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large Disks lose loads of diskspace
Message-ID:  <200408191426.36444.stevan.tiefert@freenet.de>
In-Reply-To: <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com>
References:  <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com>

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On Thursday 19 August 2004 13:17, duncan wrote:
> I installed 2 new 200gb harddrives lately. Both show up in bios as 200gb,
> on boot they are shown as 190gb (probably the 1000->1024 conversion), but
> when I create a filesystem they are only 180gb.
> Now, I can live with a 20gb loss, but when I check the disks free space,
> they have only 166gb free with 0 gb used. Could be me, but I find 34gb a
> bit excessive. I hope anyone has a clue as to what I'm doing wrong.
>
> Hope someone knows what is going on.
>
> Regards, duncan.
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Hello Duncan,

the first step would be if you give us the physical geometry of the harddisk 
(cylinders, heads and sectors and so on).

regards
Stevan Tiefert



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