Huge Partition

[Jeff Vian]

Martin Stone wrote:

> Oops, sorry, missed your other question.  My "df -h" output is:
>
> /dev/sdc1             1.1T  166G  862G  17% /export/home
> /dev/sdd1             1.1T  852G  175G  83% /export/data
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> They're mirrors, so smaller than yours... but if you can get to 1.1 
> TB, why not at least 1.9?  The 1008 GB number seems a really weird 
> place for it to stop.
>
And how big is 1008GB??
Unless I missed on my math that is _really_ close to 1.0TB, just not 
displayed the same.

> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> Martin Stone wrote:
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>> Um, what does fdisk say?  Did you partition with "parted"?  What 
>> happens if you partition with fdisk?  Likely if df -h says 1008 GB, 
>> that's what it is...
>>
>> I don't use those /fancy/ partition editors... ;-)
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> Bill Gradwohl wrote:
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>>> Martin:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the information.
>>>
>>> I've tried your suggestion of partitioning after the box is already 
>>> up and
>>> running. However, parted produces some interesting output via its print
>>> command once I'm done:
>>>
>>> Minor     Start     End       Type     Filesystem     Flag
>>> 1         0.031   -189362.652 primary   ext3
>>>
>>> The partition mounts fine, although df reports its size as 1008G. 
>>> Not what I
>>> was expecting.
>>>
>>> I'm writing to it now via a loop to eat all the disk space in 
>>> roughly 1G
>>> increments to see exactly how big it is. At the rate its going, 
>>> about a Gig
>>> per minute, this loop is going to run about 30 hours.
>>>
>>> The parted print output and df's output could just be errors in 
>>> printing and
>>> all could be OK, but I'd appreciate knowing what yours shows to see 
>>> if I'm
>>> wasting my time.
>>>
>>> Thank You
>>>
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