On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:41:24 pm Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:35:28 +0200 (CEST) > > Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but we are talking about disk capacity. filesystem is just kind of data > > on disk, you may access disk without it like my video stream server. > > actually only 1GB of each disk is allocated for filesystem (mirror+stripe > > on 8 disks, giving 4GB for / partition), everything else simply contains > > movies, with catalog as file on / partition. > > OP was complaining he/she could only access a smaller % of his disk after > formatting it. so i think the effect of formatting also goes to answering > the OP. > > _________________________ > {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome > > "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest > political end... liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and > provokes no sincere opposition... The danger is not that a particular class > is unfit to to govern. Every class is unfit to govern... Power tends to > corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton > > I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when > wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You > have been Warned. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
When you format a disk a percentage of the disk is reserved for a map so your file can be found. On a UFS it is called the SUPER BLOCKS a master and at least one slave. Typically these blocks will take up to 8% or there abouts of the disk. BTW I am not shouting when "SUPER BLOCKS' that's how it's written. In a root shell type fsck and watch the screen. For more info dig into you docs usually /share/doc or usr/doc there where some really good docs on the UFS. John _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"