large disk space problem?

[Karl Larsen]

zhu blue wrote:
> hello:
>
> I recently added additional 160GB disk to my F8 system. and partitioned
> it as a single partition.
>
> but when I use "df" command to show my disk, it only show the size is
> 9.2G
>
> on my Desktop. GNOME it can show the disk as 149.0Gb correctly.
>
> how to fix this problem?
>
> the following is my disk info.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at pc1 ~]# df
> Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda7     ext3     38G   15G   22G  41% /
> tmpfs        tmpfs    474M   12K  474M   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda9     ext3     66G   61G  1.3G  98% /home
> /dev/sda5     vfat     25G   18G  7.1G  72% /media/disk
> /dev/sdb1     ext3    9.2G  5.3G  3.5G  61% /media/disk-1
> /dev/sda1     vfat     15G  8.3G  6.4G  57% /media/disk-2
> /dev/sda6     ext3     38G  3.9G   33G  11% /media/_home
> [root at pc1 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19457.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xe2c5e2d5
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1       19457   156288321   83  Linux
>
> Command (m for help): q
>
> [root at pc1 ~]# 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> thanks,
> zhu
>
>   
    I see nothing wrong. But you must transfer some or all of your 
system to the new /dev/sdb hard drive. Do so with care.


Karl


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