Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!hoosier.utah.edu!mjb 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. mjb@hoosier.utah.edu "I've seen some nasty deserts, Lord, but this one here's the worst!"