Date:  Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:55:23 -0500
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:06681] Re: Odd Partitioning
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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In-Reply-To:  <fc.000f814700248469000f814700248469.24846e (at mark) fc.zio.com>
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> 
> I recently created a new BQ system and noticed the 
> partitioning of my two RAID 1 18 Gig drives.
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md1              6.0G  788M  4.9G  14% /
> /dev/md6               99M   17M   78M  18% /boot
> none                  506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/md4              4.7G  1.1G  3.5G  24% /home
> /dev/md2             1012M   34M  927M   4% /tmp
> /dev/md3              4.0G  199M  3.6G   6% /var
> 
> This seems a bit odd. Am i missing some thing here.  4.7G for 
> the /home drive?

'/' and '/var' and '/tmp' are using 11GB, so by the time you add it all
up there isn't much left.
And due to formating you never get 100% of raw drive capacity.

Gerald