305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at msu.edu
Sat Feb 3 22:04:44 UTC 2007
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 06:39:29PM -0500, Peter wrote:
> I am installing a new 6.2 STABLE system and I am troubled by the amount
> of available disk space I'm getting on one of my IDE devices:
>
> # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> ...
> ...
> /dev/ad1a 289G 4.0K 266G 0% /ad1
>
> This drive is 320 GB by the manufacturer and thus I should theoretically
> have 305 GBs. This is confirmed by dmesg:
>
> ad1: 305244MB <WDC WD3200JB-00KFA0 08.05J08> at ata0-slave UDMA33
This is well covered in the FreeBSD FAQ and answered many times
in this Email list. Do some checking.
////jerry
>
> Steps:
>
> # fdisk -i /dev/ad1
> # bsdlabel -w /dev/ad1
> # newfs /dev/ad1a
> # mount /dev/ad1a /ad1
>
> Info:
>
> # bsdlabel /dev/ad1
> # /dev/ad1:
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> a: 625140319 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
> c: 625140335 0 unused 0 0
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers,
>
> PM
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