Re: How to get more HDD space?

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:14:51PM +0100, Anon wrote:
> I have an 200gb harddrive, it says 180gb (due to different size 
> standards) but when Mounted I only have 160gb!
> I heard FreeBSD is "taking away" a few % of the HDD, for something... 
> but how can I disable that on a harddrive?
> /thanks!

When a filesystem is created, 8% of the space is reserved.

You can use the -m parameter to tunefs(8) to reduce this percentage of
reserved space. But doing this will slow down the system. See the tunefs
manual page. 

If you need more space, better buy an extra harddrive.

Roland
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