> 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?