4 Jul
2008
4 Jul
'08
1:25 p.m.
On Friday 04 July 2008, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
Kevin Thorpe wrote:
I'm having a spot of bother with a large (900GB) partition. fdisk claims it's 900GB. I made an ext3 fs on it and df says it's
only
94GB. Which is correct? Or did I do something wrong?
If this partition is on a LARGER drive, you may need to use parted and not fdisk to create your partitions. Large drives need gpt labels and are not able to be partitioned with fdisk.
However, that is not usually a problem with 900GB drive.
parted claims it's 879GB so the partition appears to be ok. Have I managed to format a small filesystem on a large partition?
How big is the drive/device on which you have created this partition?
/Peter