Large hard disk confusion
I just installed sarge on a 160 GB hard disk. Partitions are 2GB swap,
50 MB /boot, and the rest for /.
~$ df -ahT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 ext3 145G 230M 138G 1% /
proc proc 0 0 0 - /proc
devpts devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
tmpfs tmpfs 443M 0 443M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 ext3 45M 9.3M 33M 23% /boot
usbfs usbfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
My question is, why is hda3 only showing as 145 GB? Surely ext3 isn't
taking up gigabytes worth of journal information?
$ uname -a
Linux debian 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 160041885696, start = 0
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 7 249 1951897+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 250 19457 154288260 83 Linux
# dmesg | grep hda
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: ST3160023A, ATA DISK drive
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
The motherboard is an Intel D865PERL, which is fairly new so there
shouldn't be any problems there AFAIK.
Thank you for reading (and any clarity!).
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Brian Clark
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