Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:55:58 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: Michael <mike@unixhideout.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk size measured incorrectly. Message-ID: <20030314005558.GI7222@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <2508.192.168.1.10.1047602402.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com> References: <2508.192.168.1.10.1047602402.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com>
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--7SrMUQONj8Rl9QNG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:40:02PM -0500, Michael wrote: >=20 > Hello once again boys and girls. I added two drives to my server via > /stand/sysinstall. they are one western digital, 120 gig and a maxtor, 120 > gig. > This is what i see via df >=20 > /dev/ad1s1e 113G 89G 15G 86% /mirror > /dev/ad2s1e 110G 12K 101G 0% /mirror2 >=20 > I dont _need_ the space. Not even close. but it cant hurt to use the disk > at its most, and mostly though im obsessive compulsive and i would prefer > to see the output below :) as i got another 120 gig drive on the way. Did > i initialize them wrong or something? The bios is set to have both drives > auto detected and the access mode is auto as well. Thanks guys. >=20 > /dev/ad1s1e 120G 89G 15G 86% /mirror > /dev/ad2s1e 120G 12K 101G 0% /mirror2 The drive manufacturers are probably measuring a gigabyte at 1 billion byes, whereas as true gigabyte, in binary terms is 1073741824 bytes. Dividing 120000000000/1073741824 yields about 112GB, or close to what you are seeing. Although, this is just a guess. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --7SrMUQONj8Rl9QNG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+cSieWZYS9EJQoEwRArBPAJ9sgI4FeaOfjUO0VCw6g4pILw3b6wCfZ+mO QLL6zNyfNGunGy/3l5RfPWA= =KU6E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7SrMUQONj8Rl9QNG-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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