Large disk partition over 300GB

Jeff - (jeff9n@hotmail.com)
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 22:23:13 PDT

I don't know if this is the appropriate place to ask this question. I have a
server with a huge amount of disk space (300GB+). After the file system is
created, the partition is mounted under /home2. However, the size of the
partition is significantly smaller than expected. The transcript below will
provide better detail. The
disk is about 320GB. But the file system only see roughly 265GB. Is this a
limitation with the kernel or the file system? It is expected that the
capacity of the formatted partition will be less. But in this case the loss
is around 55GB (~ %18) which is quite significant.

If anyone can give me some feedback or pointer about this issue, it is
greatly appreciated.

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Script started on Sat Jul 10 21:50:58 1999
[root@cust /tmp]# fdisk /dev/sdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 40429.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 40429 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 40429 324745911 83 Linux

Command (m for help): q

[root@cust /tmp]# df /dev/sdb1
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 265362194 13 249124886 0% /home2
[root@cust /tmp]# exit

Script done on Sat Jul 10 21:51:24 1999

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