Re: 80G disk seen as 20G?
Hi,
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Victor Munoz wrote:
>
> > >
> > kernel sees 80 GB, so that's ok. But node the partitions:
> > hda1 hda2.
> >
> > So partition 1 is 18 GB, don't know how much partition 2 is (could be 60
> > GB, or only a part).
> >
> > Use fdisk /dev/hda to revise your partition table.
>
> There is only one big partition, plus the swap one:
> -----
> spl09:/home/vmunoz/tmp# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 2433 2556 996030 82 Linux swap
> -----
>
which meand you have another 50 GB free. Add a new partition and you will
see. You have 9729 cylinders, while you only use up to cilinder 2556.
Either add a new partition, or rearrange your whole talbe (mind the loss
of all data on the disc then).
Greetz,
Sebas
>
> > >
> > > I have another machine with the bf2.4 kernel, 40G hard disk, and
> > > it is recognized as such by df.
> > >
> > I don't know what you mean by this. You want to show that your other 2.4
> > kernel doesn't have a 18 GB limit with a 40 GB HD? Well, I guess this
> > harddisk has one big parition then.
> >
>
> Yes, that's what I wanted to show. If it were a kernel issue, I would
> have had problems with the other machine as well, as it is above the 34G
> limit. Now, the machine with the 40G disk has a small 100M boot partition,
> /dev/hda1, mounted on /boot, but /dev/hda2, which is mounted on /,
> is shown by df to be 36G, so that's fine. And it's still above (well,
> slighty) the 34G for 2.3 and older kernels. But then again, I'm using a
> newer kernel.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Victor
>
>
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