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?
It's a terabyte hardware RAID array. I've got a 100GB partition for the system and I want to use the remaining 900GB as a backup storage location.