large disk space problem?
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Dec 9 02:51:31 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 09:14 +0800, zhu blue wrote:
> 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.
>
> [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
The above makes no mention of anything on /dev/sdb. So you haven't
mounted it, or it can't yet be mounted.
> [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
What steps have you gone through?
To make use of a drive, you partition it (even if that means using the
whole drive as one partition), fdisk is one tool that you can use. A
quick glance at the above looks like you've done that okay.
Then you format it with a file system (e.g. man mkfs.ext3).
Then you mount it (e.g. man fstab &/or man mount).
--
(This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
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