Now this is a bit strange but I just had a similar problem with a 20 gig WD
hd. (20 gig only showing up as 7.0gig after a windows2000 ntfs format) and
when I went to format it back to fat32 it showed up as 7.0 gig also. I
would change it in the bios only to reboot and have it go right back. (it
detected in the bios as the correct size until I saved and exited [yes I
saved =) ]) I ended up having to use the WD utility to write 0's to the
drive and then auto detect in the bios. I never did get this drive to work
with windows2000. I don't know if it is the same thing here but I used
partition magic to format to ntfs and totally messed the drive when I tried
to format under windows2000!
> [linatic@intrude linatic]$ df
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5 235M 152M 72M 68% /
> /dev/hda8 8.5G 6.9G 1.2G 86% /home
> /dev/hda6 2.9G 892M 1.9G 32% /usr
> /dev/hda7 6.8G 655M 5.9G 10% /var
> /dev/hdd1 7.7G 20k 7.3G 0% /mnt/backup
> [linatic@intrude linatic]$
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>
> Any of you guys have any similar experiences? U fdisk a new drive, then
U
> format it ext2 and your 45G drive only shows up ast 7gigs? Any idea
where
> I should look? I followed the Administrator's guide.
>
> which said to just mke2fs -cv /dev/hdd1
>
> so I need to mess with inodes and block sizes?
>
>
> On the original HD: (has more partitions)
> blocks = 19,687,657 on the 8.5 part /dev/hda2
> start 51 end 2501
>
> On the new HD:
> blocks = 8,241,344 on the 7.7 gig part /dev/hdd1
> start 1 end 16352
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundryphys=(1,254,63) should be
> (1,15,63)
>
>
> I think this is a CHS issue. Any ideas on where I would go... too bad
my
> IBM drives don't have a"How to install in Linux, eh?"
>
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