Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 09:14 +0800, zhu blue wrote: >> I recently added additional 160GB disk to my F8 system. and partitioned >> it as a single partition. but when I use "df" command to show my >> disk, it only show the size is 9.2G on my Desktop. GNOME it can show >> the disk as 149.0Gb correctly. >> >> [root@pc1 ~]# df >> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda7 ext3 38G 15G 22G 41% / >> tmpfs tmpfs 474M 12K 474M 1% /dev/shm >> /dev/sda9 ext3 66G 61G 1.3G 98% /home >> /dev/sda5 vfat 25G 18G 7.1G 72% /media/disk >> /dev/sdb1 ext3 9.2G 5.3G 3.5G 61% /media/disk-1 ^^^^^^^^^ >> /dev/sda1 vfat 15G 8.3G 6.4G 57% /media/disk-2 >> /dev/sda6 ext3 38G 3.9G 33G 11% /media/_home > > The above makes no mention of anything on /dev/sdb. So you haven't > mounted it, or it can't yet be mounted. > >> >> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >> Disk identifier: 0xe2c5e2d5 >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sdb1 1 19457 156288321 83 Linux > > What steps have you gone through? > > To make use of a drive, you partition it (even if that means using the > whole drive as one partition), fdisk is one tool that you can use. A > quick glance at the above looks like you've done that okay. > > Then you format it with a file system (e.g. man mkfs.ext3). > > Then you mount it (e.g. man fstab &/or man mount). > It looks like the drive is already one big partition with an ext3 file system on it, but it is only shown as being 9.2G. It almost looks like the partition was resized but the file system wasn't. If it didn't already have 5.3G of data on it, it would be tempting to delete and recreate the file system. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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