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Date:      25 Aug 2000 14:40:00 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, gashalot@gashalot.com
Subject:   Re: Disk usage reporting error
Message-ID:  <44itspjibj.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
In-Reply-To: gashalot@gashalot.com's message of "25 Aug 2000 18:27:25 %2B0200"
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008251212550.28762-100000@raq.tabernae.com>

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gashalot@gashalot.com (Robert Gash) writes:

> for use.  For me this is more than enough, but I want to know where my
> "extra" 4GB of disk has gone in this instance, because 52 - 4 != 44.

No, it's off by exactly 8%.  Look up the "-m" option to newfs(8).

[Short summary: it's expected behaviour, and you most likely want to
leave it just the way it is.]


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