> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 262 2104483+ b Win95 FAT32 > /dev/hda2 * 263 654 3148740 83 Linux native > /dev/hda3 655 671 136552+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda4 672 784 907672+ 83 Linux native
Hmm, that doesn't look like it should be too big. It also looks a lot smaller than the 800+MB partition your df showed. (Those "Blocks" up there are 512 bytes each, so 907672 block is 453836 kilobytes.) My Hurd partition is bigger than that (mine is about 630MB). Are you sure the filesystem is formatted properly? > I can't find anything in the man page to explain what the "+" refers to > after the number. I think it means the partition is not precisely on a cylinder boundary. The cylinders are usually complete fiction anyway these days, so it probably doesn't matter. > Is there anything I can do to make it at least work as well as it has > been? Well, you could comment out the size check in ext2fs/ext2fs.c. I don't know if that would do what you want or not. > Given a choice (which I may not be given, it seems. <grin>) I'd rather > not format and redo the install as it's been considerably customized away > from the Debian install. It looks like you have plenty of disk space around. Why don't you use tar or dump/restore on linux to save the contents of the filesystem in a file someplace else, and then reformat and restore?
