On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 14:09 +0100, 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? I suggest running e2fsck -n. See the man page. Then, think of the -m parameter. The default, IIRC, is 5%. On small drives of the past this was appropriate. Now, I make most of mine with 1%. 900GB * .05 = appx. 45GB. There's your loss. > <snip> HTH -- Bill