Re: [SLE] fdisk then mkfs.reiserfs Now df reports wrong disk size

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.

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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??

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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

I take it you need only 1 partition on hdb. fdisk /dev/hdb

david rankin wrote: print the partition table (p) delete each partition (d) set up new primary partition (n) 1 set up the type (t) 83 for linux. write it away (w) mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1 Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====