Mates, Here is a little more information. Parted says the OS sees the wrong disk geometry: skyline:~ # parted -i /dev/hdb GNU Parted 1.6.6 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Using /dev/hdb Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdb is 2491/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. (parted) What gives?? (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-19541.812 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 19539.997 primary reiserfs type=83 What do I need to do to have the OS see the right geometry?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankin-bertin.com -- ----- Original Message ----- From: "david rankin" To: "Suse Linux" Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:01 PM Subject: [SLE] fdisk then mkfs.reiserfs Now df reports wrong disk size

Mates,

I needed to wipe /dev/hdb and start over. What I did was to:

umount /data fdisk /dev/hdb (delete old partitions and added new partition to use whole disk) mkfs.reiserfs

then rebooted

Now df reports:

skyline:~ # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 19526404 8610112 10916292 45% / tmpfs 127948 0 127948 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdb1 514028 32840 481188 7% /data

The weird part is hda and hdb are exactly the same size. Where did I go wrong?? Do I need to fdisk, then reboot, then mkfs.reiserfs?? Does it make a difference?? fstab is as follows:

skyline:~ # cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 #/dev/hdb1 /data reiserfs defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

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On Wednesday 22 December 2004 22:01, david rankin wrote:

Mates,

I needed to wipe /dev/hdb and start over. What I did was to:

umount /data fdisk /dev/hdb (delete old partitions and added new partition to use whole disk) mkfs.reiserfs

then rebooted First, you do not need to reboot. While this is generally the correct way to proceed, you could use QTParted or YaSt to do this with out rebooting. First, unmount the existing /dev/hdb* file systems. Second, run the YaST partitioner, delete all partitions on /dev/hdb Then set up the file system, click on the format flag. Set the mount point. YaST will update your /etc/fstab. Then click on apply. YaST will complete the operation for you,

Once you complete this, do a df on /data and see if things show up correctly. Please note that QTParted will delete the partitions and reformat the new one to ReiserFS, but will not edit the /etc/fstab file for you. There could possibly be a bug in fdisk. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9