> > > 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? > > 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. I'm not bothered about an odd 45GB, it's that df says it's only 94GB in total that worries me.