On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:39:13PM +0000, thursday wrote: > Greets, > > I haven't been following FreeBSD much at all lately, having gotten a Linx > admin job, so forgive me: > > I'm installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a new machine. I've added a second disk, and > 80Gig Maxtor IDE drive. I use sysinstall to partition it, and run > disklabel/newfs, etc, mounting it as "/storage". > > In sysinstall, it shows the disk as being 78G - that's fine. 1024 != 1000. > > However, when I run df -h it tells me the disk's capacity is 74G, there's > 4.0K in use (it's empty), but only 68G is available. I'm just confused about > where the 12G went.
Well, commands like df and du can only estimate about how much disk space there really is used. du may say a file is only 10 bytes, but it probably takes up at least 1k of space. A 900 byte file probably also takes up 1k so it's not a multiplier, but rounding. My favorite way to find out how much diskspace a drive has left is to do cat /dev/zero > /path/to/test/partition/file, then do a ls -l on the file to see how much space it takes up. Only do this if filling up the partiton won't interfere with anyone or any thing else. You can also do a df -h once full just for kicks. Lastly, a non-root user can only fill a partition to 95% by default so, unless you run it as root, u'll still have 5% free space when done. > > Anyone have any helpful pointers to help me understand? > > Also, what's the ".snap/" directory for? > > Thanks so much! > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
