Now 17500.50 MB = 17.09 GB (approx.), so that explains almost half of
the missing space. Have you verified the partition table after
partitioning the hard disk ? Just check if there are any sectors free or
unallocated.

Manish


naveen dhankhar wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>    We have added a new 18 G.B. SCSI Hard Disk to our online Server.when I run cfdisk 
>it shows 17500.50 MB. free space .it is ok.But my problem is that when I created a 
>single primary partion by giving it whole available space ,then on mounting this 
>partion  shows only 16G.B Disk space and when I divided the whole space in two 
>partions ,then it shows two partions
> which are of 8 and 8.5 G.b. i.e. a total of 16.5 G.B. where  my 1G.B. has gone
> 
> regards
> 
> Naveen
>


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