losing disk space

[synrat]

thanx guys. learn something new every day.
I actually noticed that my smaller volumes display the
same 'discrepancy'..., but it only became a concern after
'loosing' 10gb :). hehe.
should've realized that myself right away.

is this true though that soft updates use additional disk space ??



Mike Woods wrote:
> synrat wrote:
> 
>> Filesystem                 Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>> /dev/vinum/data             67G   2.0K    62G     0%    /data
>>
>> Does this look weird or what ??
> 
> 
> Nope, looks fine to me :)
> 
>> 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  ?
> 
> 
> 5gb :)
> 
> UFS keep x% of the drive unavailable from anyone but root as part of the
> filesystem optimisations, you can turn this off if you want with tunefs
> but expect a performance hit from it.
> 
> Mike Woods
> IT Technician
> 
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