On 2/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Tony Abernethy wrote:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 16 partitions:
>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
>> a: 390721968 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 0
>> -387620
>> c: 390721968 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0
>> -387620
>>
>> Most likely, the disklabel or boot code
>> or whatever occupies the initial sector(s)
>> is being interpreted as disk usage by the partition.
>>
>> Start the partition 1 cylinder in from the beginning.
>
> See http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#blankfdisk
>
> On i386 and amd4, always use fdisk -i on a new disk before creating the
> disklabel. If you do that, disklabel will do the right thing
> automatically.
We have a winner here! :-)
I realized after running 'fdisk -i wd1' and then 'disklabel -E wd1'
that my previous use of disklabel had the partition starting at offset
0, not offset 63 as expected. After recreating the disklabel this way
and re-running newfs, I get a much happier result:
-bash-3.1$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 7.3G 79.1M 6.9G 1% /
/dev/wd0d 22.0G 512M 20.4G 2% /usr
/dev/wd0e 7.2G 6.8M 6.8G 0% /var
/dev/wd1a 183G 2.0K 174G 0% /mnt
The thing is I never would have thought an offset difference of 63
would make it appear that 38 GB had been used up.
Greg
