kevin kempter wrote:
Because you did not format the new partition, it is getting file system size and usage from the old file system. In fact, at this point, you could probably recover the old partition table and file systems. If you unmount /dev/sdb1, and run "mke2fs /dev/sdb1" you will end up with an empty file system using the full partition.Hi List;I have a 320G SATA drive that used to have Fedora 8 on it, I no longer need it as a main Linux drive so I want to use is as USB storage.However I'm having issues trying to fdisk the drive into a single partition.Here's what I did : 1) put the drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure 2) plugged the USB into my Fedora box 3) as root ran 'fdisk /dev/sdb' 4) removed all partitions on the drive and wrote the changes 5) rebooted my Fedora box 6) ran 'fdisk /dev/sdb' again at this point I get this if I print the partition table: /Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000733a/7) added a single partition: - choose 'p' for primary partition - choose '1' for partition number- choose '1' for the first cyllinder - choose '38913' for the last cyllinder Like this: /Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-38913, default 1): 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-38913, default 38913): 38913/8) wrote the changes (w) 9) I went back into fdisk and printed the partition table:/Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000733a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 38913 312568641 83 Linux/ 10) rebooted the Fedora box again 11) plugged in the USB drive KDE asks what to do - I say open in a new window. What I see is the data from my old /boot file systemAlso now if I do a 'df -h' I see the second (USB) drive as only the size of the old /boot file system (1.9G) not the 320G I expect to see:/$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 48G 35G 11G 77% / /dev/sda1 190M 19M 162M 11% /boot tmpfs 506M 364K 505M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 1.9G 52M 1.8G 3% /media/-boot1/ What am I doing wrong ? Thanks in advance... /Kevin
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