Creating the partition with fdisk seems to have improved things. The df utility now reports 1.8T for the partition, the 0.2T being used up in overhead. That's more like it!
200GB in overhead? That's about 10%. Why so high?
Root normally reserves space on a partition to prevent the disk filling up totally and crashing the system, but that's normally just 5%, so where's the other 5% (100GB) going? You can check how much space is "reserved" for root with:
# tune2fs -m /dev/hda1
You can also adjust it to 2% instead of 5% (since your filesystem is so large) via:
# tune2fs -m 2 /dev/hda1
See the man page for more details or if I've made any mistakes.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
