On Friday 04 July 2008, Johnny Hughes 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. Put differently, if you run fdisk on a device >2T fdisks behaviour is undefined. It will commonly create broken layouts without logging any error messages. All this because fdisk only uses msdos-style partition tables which by design doesn't work for >2T devices. Of course the worst part of all this is fdisks complete lack of error checking... I your device/drive is not larger than 2T then this theory falls. /Peter > However, that is not usually a problem with 900GB drive.
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