On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:26:40PM -0800, Ryan wrote: > okay so after backing everything up for 4 hours I did what you said: > > The partition is indeed bigger, but not was large as I had expected. It says I > only have about 36GB free. Here is a df
When Linux says "gigabyte", it means 2^30 bytes. When hard drive manufacturers say "gigabyte", they mean 10^9 bytes. You say this is labeled as a 40 GB drive; those are marketing gigabytes. To convert to "real"* gigabytes, multiply by 10^9/2^30 and get 37.25 gigabytes. Your filesystem has 36.97 GB worth of blocks for data, and the rest goes to overhead. Looks like the resize worked just fine to me. * There's some contention over this; I say a real gigabyte is 2^30 bytes. > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdb1 38769320 32828 36782588 1% /home/media > > -ryan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:15 PM > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive > > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:52:48PM -0800, ryan wrote: > > > this but the drive is a 40GB slave that I'm using to > > > store mpegs and such. All those commands worked and here is the output. > > > > Very good... the output explained what's happening. > > > > It turns out that Linux has no problem accessing all of the > > drive. > > > > ## Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders > > ## Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > ## > > ## Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > ## /dev/hdb1 1 4111 33021576 83 Linux > > > > The problem is the partition that was made didn't use all of the > > 4865 cylinders that are available. It only used the first 4111. > > > > If you can move all of your important data off the drive... > > then umount the partition and do the following with a Linux fdisk > > command: > > > > fdisk /dev/hdb > > = > > d > > 1 > > n > > p > > 1 > > > > > > w > > = > > > > which will > > d = Delete, 1 = partition 1. > > n = New, p = Primary partition, 1 = partition 1. > > return = start at the first cylinder, return = end at the last cylinder, > > w = write the partition. > > > > once that is done: > > === > > mke2fs -j -b 4096 -i 16384 /dev/hdb1 > > === > > > > Should make a new ext3 filesystem on that partition. with blocksize > > 4096 bytes per block, and a few fewer inodes since you are storing large > > files on it. > > > > Then mount your partition again... it should be bigger. > > > > Run a "df" before and after those steps... if the partition isn't bigger > > afterwards let me know and send the df output. > > > > If you can't move your files off the drive (not enough space), then > > back them up somewhere, tell me what filesystem type you have on the > > partition, and I'll suggest a way to resize the filesystem without recreation. > > > > Good Luck, > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Samuel Merritt OpenPGP key is at http://meat.andcheese.org/~spam/spam_at_andcheese_dot_org.asc Information about PGP can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/pgp/
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