Re: How to understand partition sizes
Ivan Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am I actually seeing what is really happening or am I really loosing 43.5Gb of space on the /server partition http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MANUFACTURER-DISK-SIZE ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to understand partition sizes
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:46:51PM +1000, Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, After installing a new system on a 500Gb HDD the partition size I allocated at install does no match the size after complete system installation This is well covered in the FAQ and in numerous posts to this list. Check the archives. jerry Disc size comes up as 476937MB At install I partitioned the disc: / 2048Mb /swap 4096Mb /var2048Mb /server 440Gb /usr13065Mb After install and checking the partition sizes with KDiskFree the partitions are: /1.9Gb /var 1.9Gb /server 431.0Gb /usr 12.4Gb The /server is 9Gb smaller than I partitioned and the actual free space without any files in the partition is shown as 396.5Gb which is another 34.5Gb smaller. Am I actually seeing what is really happening or am I really loosing 43.5Gb of space on the /server partition Thanks, Ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to understand partition sizes
Hello, After installing a new system on a 500Gb HDD the partition size I allocated at install does no match the size after complete system installation Disc size comes up as 476937MB At install I partitioned the disc: / 2048Mb /swap 4096Mb /var2048Mb /server 440Gb /usr13065Mb After install and checking the partition sizes with KDiskFree the partitions are: /1.9Gb /var 1.9Gb /server 431.0Gb /usr 12.4Gb The /server is 9Gb smaller than I partitioned and the actual free space without any files in the partition is shown as 396.5Gb which is another 34.5Gb smaller. Am I actually seeing what is really happening or am I really loosing 43.5Gb of space on the /server partition Thanks, Ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to understand partition sizes
The /server is 9Gb smaller than I partitioned and the actual free space without any files in the partition is shown as 396.5Gb which is another 34.5Gb smaller. The number of disk sectors/blocks allocated to a partition at install is reduced by the amount of space taken by the system to put file system information (table of inodes, etc.) plus some percentage of space kept for security reason (so the operating system can fill up your partition by more than 100% in case of emergency). Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to understand partition sizes
On 04/06/07, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The /server is 9Gb smaller than I partitioned and the actual free space without any files in the partition is shown as 396.5Gb which is another 34.5Gb smaller. The number of disk sectors/blocks allocated to a partition at install is reduced by the amount of space taken by the system to put file system information (table of inodes, etc.) plus some percentage of space kept for security reason (so the operating system can fill up your partition by more than 100% in case of emergency). There is also the fact that your 500GB drive is not actually 500GB. I think there is even a FAQ entry about this. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
