/bckupdrv how big?

[wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org]

Quoting caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org:

> caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org writes:
>
> > 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
> >
> > <snip>
>
> I thought I was okay with this but I'm not. I'm only able to save under 1 Gb
> on this supposedly 6.5 GB dard drive. I'm getting different information from
> fdisk, hardware browser, df, and Nautilus.
>
> ANy ideas?
>
> Chris
>
>
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I forget if you have data that you need to access on this drive or not.  If it's
not important and you don't care about what is currently on that drive, then why
not format and start over?  Or have you tried that already?  Sorry, to waste
your time if this isn't the case.

Tom Watts
wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org

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