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? /Peter
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