On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:42:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just moved a 200GB hard drive from a 3.7 box to a 4.0 box, and since 
> my data was all backed up, I decided to run disklabel, create a fresh 
> partition that spanned the whole disk, and then run newfs on that 
> partition. I expect to not have all 200GB, between the whole issue of 
> poorly labeled disk sizes and the 5% reserved by default. What I don't 
> expect, however, is to see ** 22% ** of my disk already in use:
> 
> -bash-3.1$ df -h
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a      7.3G   78.9M    6.9G     1%    /
> /dev/wd0d     22.0G    512M   20.4G     2%    /usr
> /dev/wd0e      7.2G    6.7M    6.8G     0%    /var
> /dev/wd1a      183G   38.0G    136G    22%    /mnt
> 
> Can anyone explain this? Have I done something wrong here? More 
> importantly, is there a simple way to remedy this and get my 38GB back?
> 
> Alex Kirk

Obviously something is screwy. Try posting the output of 'fdisk wd1',
'disklabel wd1' and at *least* the portion of your dmesg corresponding
to the disk. No way to tell what's messed up just from df output.

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