/bckupdrv how big?

Fri Mar 10 20:54:11 UTC 2006

Chris F.A. Johnson writes: 

> 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

[root at a800 pauline]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb 

Disk /dev/hdb: 6488 MB, 6488294400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 788 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes 

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1         788     6329578+  83  Linux 

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