/bckupdrv how big?

[Chris Aitken]

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

> 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?
>
I guess I just didn't mark the drive to be formated in Disk Druid. It 
doesn't really matter, I guess. It's still partition type 83. I just 
delete4d the folders and files and now I have use of my 6 GB.

I'm fine now. Thanks for the help everyone.

CHris

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