Attachment 37408 Details for Bug 59565 – file.diff

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Created: 2003-11-21 21:00:33 UTC

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>*** book.sgml.ORIG      Thu Nov 20 16:20:40 2003
>--- book.sgml   Fri Nov 21 15:52:55 2003
>***************
>*** 6150,6155 ****
>--- 6150,6173 ----
>        </qandaentry>
>  
>        <qandaentry>
>+         <question id="manufacturer-disk-size">
>+           <para>Why does FreeBSD see my disk as smaller than the
>+             manufacturer says it is?</para>
>+         </question>
>+ 
>+         <answer>
>+         <para>Disk manufacturers calculate gigabytes as a billion bytes
>+           each, whereas FreeBSD calculates them as 1,073,741,824 bytes
>+           each. This explains why, for example, FreeBSD's boot messages
>+           will report a disk that supposedly has 80GB as holding 
>+           76319MB.</para>
>+         <para>Also note that FreeBSD will (by default)
>+           <link linkend="disk-more-than-full">reserve</link> 8% of the disk
>+           space.
>+         </answer>
>+       </qandaentry>
>+ 
>+       <qandaentry>
>          <question id="disk-more-than-full">
>            <para>How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100%
>              full?</para>

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