Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:49:53 -0500 From: Jason <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Omer Faruk Sen <freebsd@faruk.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 200gb hard drive? Message-ID: <3FBD28F1.70601@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20031120202303.10773.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org> References: <20031120202303.10773.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org>
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Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Hi > I have installed a new hard drive to my FreeBSD system. Hard drive is > 200gb but > when I fdisk and disklabel the output of "df -h" is something like that: > /dev/ad1s1e 183G 2.0K 169G 0% /disk2 > Here as you can see I can only use 169GB of it. Bios has seen my > harddrive as 190GB also dmesg output is like that: > ad1: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JB-00DUA3> [387621/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 > My question is what happened to 190-169 gb or maybe after some > filesystem information reservation what happened to 183-169 gb? > By the way I have used default newfs parameters -b 16384 -f 2048. I > don't know if that helps... > REGARDS... > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Wd uses an old system to measure drive capicity. For a wd drive 200gb= 200,000,000,000 bytes, but to any person fimilar with binary and decimal numbers there 200gb=186.26gb~2^37.54bytes. You also have to have a file system, with takes up more room with more space to map.
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