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From: jeff@u02.svl.cdc.com (Jeff Needham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Miscellaneous questions
Keywords: Diskspace, newfs.ffs, mount
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Date: 9 Jan 91 01:59:27 GMT
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glee@athena.mit.edu (Gilbert Huppert) writes:

>I have a few questions which came up last night when I was installing
>a new Wren-7 drive from Seagate (1200 Mb).  I know that the formatted 
>capacity should be 1039+ Mb, and this is what the partition table claims
>is available.  However, when I run newfs.ffs to set up the disk header,
>I find that I have only 985+ Mb.  

Everytime I format a Wren VII, I also get this number.  I know someone
who knows where the space goes and will get back to this.

>At the same time, I rearranged some of my filesystems into a more logical 
>order in order to remove conflicts when one filesystem is not already 
>mounted.  This left me with one partition of one disk (sdc0d0s7) on an 

Partition 7 is often used a a swap device and may be mounted by the kernel
"%/etc/swap -l" will give you this information.

jeff

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