zhu blue: >>> 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 Tim: >> 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. Mikkel L. Ellertson: > 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. I was never too good at figuring out fdisk block counts, but I thought: 156288321 blocks times 512 byte blocks times two (to make it kilobytes) gave 160,039,240,704 kilobytes (approx 160 GB). How is it supposed to be worked out? -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
