Improper size of slice/partition?

[Andy Farkas]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Steven Lake wrote:

> 	Hi all.  Just added a second drive to my system mounted as
> /drive2, however, when I do a df -h to see how the drive is mounted, it
> says that I have a 73G partition size, but only 67G available and 0k used.
> I could understand having 73G after newfs formatted the drive and Fdisk
> made the partition, but only having access to 67G on an 80G Western
> Digital drive seems a bit silly to me.  Anyone know what's going wrong
> with this?  I did the Fdisk and slice through sysinstall and it said all
> was fine.  Anyone know why this is acting this way?  I want my whole 73G
> for my drive.

man tunefs (look for the -m option, read carefully the "Note..." about
performance).

This topic is probably also in the FreeBSD FAQ's.

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
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