[geeks] what the? (disk space oddness)

Sandwich Maker adh at an.bradford.ma.us
Mon May 24 16:12:08 CDT 2004


" From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
" 
" On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 04:08:15PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
" > That's weird.  Looks like you're getting s4 instead of s0.
" 
" Yeah, weird.
" 
" > Maybe only a backup slice is allowed to span other slices?  This is kind
" > of a strange partitioning scheme.  What's the rationale?
" 
" Who knows...

-slices- aren't mounted, -filesystems- are mounted.  if the fs is only
15g then that's what you'll get, even if the slice is 68g.

i'd guess the fs was made in s4.  because both s4 and s0 start at cyl
0, the fs is seen in both.

now, if you mount s0 then growfs...
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