losing disk space

[Bill Moran]

synrat <synrat at wirewalk.org> wrote:
> Filesystem                 Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/vinum/data             67G   2.0K    62G     0%    /data
> 
> Does this look weird or what ??
> 
> This is a mirrored vinum volume created from 2 partitions fully taking 
> up 2 73gb drives.  vinum shows this as 68gb volume, which I guess is ok 
> considering kb>mb>gb calculation rip-off, but losing 10gb after newfsing 
> is something new. The only other thing I did is turn on soft updates, 
> but I wouldn't expect that too 'steal' 10 gb also. anyone  ?

While the question in this FAQ isn't the same question you're asking,
the answer is the same:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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