/bckupdrv how big?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org wrote:

> I guess I'll start a third thread here, since my other installation related 
> threads have continued with a tight focus. 
> I have completed the new installation -- I had to install FC2 again as FC 4 
> was giving me anaconda related file references in an exception. I am not 
> equipped to deal with that. 
> A partition I set up is /bckupdrv using almost the whole 6 GB slave drive. df 
> indicates the partition is only around 1 GB: 
> [pauline at a800 pauline]$ df /bckupdrv
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1              1004024    346348    606672  37% /bckupdrv 
> Yet, Nautilus shows that the "new" drive has folders in it that are empty but 
> somehow add up to 222 MB?! 
> The plot thickens as fdsik reports the drive as the 6 GB that I hoped it 
> would be. 
> What's going on?

    What is the output of:

fdisk -l /dev/hdb

> Should I recreate/format the drive in fdisk?

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