> 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.