Re: Huge Partition

[Martin Stone <martin.stone@xxxxxx>]

Um, what does fdisk say?  Did you partition with "parted"?  What happens if you 
partition with fdisk?  Likely if df -h says 1008 GB, that's what it is...

I don't use those /fancy/ partition editors... ;-)

Martin


Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> Martin:
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> I've tried your suggestion of partitioning after the box is already up and
> running. However, parted produces some interesting output via its print
> command once I'm done:
>
> Minor     Start     End       Type     Filesystem     Flag
> 1         0.031   -189362.652 primary   ext3
>
> The partition mounts fine, although df reports its size as 1008G. Not what I
> was expecting.
>
> I'm writing to it now via a loop to eat all the disk space in roughly 1G
> increments to see exactly how big it is. At the rate its going, about a Gig
> per minute, this loop is going to run about 30 hours.
>
> The parted print output and df's output could just be errors in printing and
> all could be OK, but I'd appreciate knowing what yours shows to see if I'm
> wasting my time.
>
> Thank You