On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:40:02PM -0500, Michael wrote: > > Hello once again boys and girls. I added two drives to my server via > /stand/sysinstall. they are one western digital, 120 gig and a maxtor, 120 > gig. > This is what i see via df > > /dev/ad1s1e 113G 89G 15G 86% /mirror > /dev/ad2s1e 110G 12K 101G 0% /mirror2 > > I dont _need_ the space. Not even close. but it cant hurt to use the disk > at its most, and mostly though im obsessive compulsive and i would prefer > to see the output below :) as i got another 120 gig drive on the way. Did > i initialize them wrong or something? The bios is set to have both drives > auto detected and the access mode is auto as well. Thanks guys. > > /dev/ad1s1e 120G 89G 15G 86% /mirror > /dev/ad2s1e 120G 12K 101G 0% /mirror2
The drive manufacturers are probably measuring a gigabyte at 1 billion byes, whereas as true gigabyte, in binary terms is 1073741824 bytes. Dividing 120000000000/1073741824 yields about 112GB, or close to what you are seeing. Although, this is just a guess. Nathan -- GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc
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