Chris Roubekas wrote:
Thank you for your responses. I have checked all that you have advised but I have noticed the following: Upon formating the 200GB drive (under SuSE7.2) with ext2 and I mount it on a directory, linux tells me that the space consumbed by the partition is 129,2 GB. I have created one big partition of the total size of the hard disk and formated it. Still though, linux tells me that the total space is not bigger than 130 GB when I execute df at my prompt!!! This sounds very strange! I have also tried to create two different paritions, one being 100G and another being about 90G and still when I mount these two onto directories, I get a total size of no more than 130 Gbytes. I have also tried installing Win9X on it and Windows tells me that the total disk size is about 190Gbytes which is correct. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?? Is this a bug in ext2?? I have also checked the bytes that are reserved for root use and it is only 1%, thus not true for the small size that df shows.
Sounds like SuSE is sizing the drive according to a BIOS limitation, while windoze is ignoring the BIOS. Change the drive in your BIOS from AUTO to NOT INSTALLED. That way, SuSE should be able to figure out drive size correctly. -- "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom...." Proverbs 9:10 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html