Terabyte drive
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at msu.edu
Fri Nov 30 10:40:05 PST 2007
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:20:51AM -0600, Caleb Collins wrote:
> So I just installed a new terabyte WD drive and I am showing 902GB on the
> new drive, which I expect thank to the fact they use 1000 instead of 1024.
> However the problem I am seeing is that I am losing 72Gb from the start on
> the fresh drive.
>
> /dev/ad4s1c 902G 4.0K 830G 0% /media2
>
> As you can see I am using 0% however I have already lost 72Gb. Is there a
> flag I am missing for newfs for new large drives or is this a bug with df.
>
It is all in the documentation and FAQs.
I believe what you are now seeing is the difference between the
total space and the space available to be written by a user process.
There is an amount (8%, if I remember correctly) on each filesystem
that is reserved for use by the system/root. You can change that
but should not.
////jerry
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