Re: Half the size

[Christer Sandvik <christer.sandvik%gmail.com@localhost>]

Christer Sandvik wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Christer Sandvik
>> <christer.sandvik <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>>>  > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Christer Sandvik
>>>  > <christer.sandvik <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  >
>>>  >> Hello
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  I ran newfs on two RZ25-E disks but it created filesystems half
>>> the disk
>>>  >>  size which is not what is wanted. My experience of creating
>>> filesystems
>>>  >>  with newfs is small and could someone tell me which parameters
>>> would be
>>>  >>  used to correct this problem.
>>>  >>
>>>  >
>>>  > Is it possible that you are seeing a filesystem size in 1kB blocks
>>>  > while expecting to see one in 512B sectors?
>>>  >
>>>  >     carl
>>>  >
>>>  I ran df and it showed them as 200 MB which confirmed that so
>>> what's up?
>>>  Is there any chance parameters was left out?
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Doesn't newfs create file systems to fit disk partitions?  Did you
>> partition your disks?  Eventually I will get lost at knowing details
>> of netbsd, but this seems fairly fundamental.
>>
>>     carl
> Yes they do but maybe something have happened earlier, could an dd
> /dev/null to disk have damaged sectors which newfs writes to?
>
> Christer
>

I found the fault recently in the partition table, I removed them and 
created new and formated them. Now they are back again as they were.

Christer