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From: mjb%hoosier.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Mark Bradakis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-UX problems and suggestions (s800)
Summary: Disk space?
Keywords: HP-UX s800 3.1
Message-ID: <1989Sep28.134347.17060@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 89 19:43:46 GMT
References: <1717@zen.co.uk>
Organization: UNiversity of Utah Computer Science
Lines: 21

In article <1717@zen.co.uk> frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes:
 
>1) The information stored in "/etc/disktab" for the 7963
>disk drive results in newfs(1M) correctly displaying that
>the drive has 304MB of disk space (297108 1K blocks in section 2).
>...
>Yet once the disk has been formatted and mounted, bdf(1) reports only
>278MB available.  This leaves almost 10% of the physical disk space
>unavailable

I'm confused.  Are you talking about the standard 10% extra space available
only to system stuff, or another 10% on top of that, i.e., what if you did
newfs -m 1% ...

mjb.



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