[Fwd: Fedora 4 maxtor 160Gb 30 gb missing;]

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 08:31 +0100, Mirco Scaramucci wrote:
> I ran /sbin/mke2fs -m /dev/hda1 and this is the output I got:
> 
> [root at localhost mirco]# /sbin/mke2fs -m /dev/hda1
> mke2fs: invalid reserved blocks percent - /dev/hda1
> 
> 
> What does that mean?
> 
> 
You forgot to put in the percentage you wanted.
Try /sbin/mke2fs -m 2 /dev/hda1

man mke2fs is your friend.

> Mirco
> email message attachment, "Forwarded message - Fedora 4 maxtor 160Gb
> 30 gb missing;"
> On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 08:31 +0100, Mirco Scaramucci wrote:
> > hello guys,
> > I just purchased a brand new maxtor 160Gb harddrive where I installed
> > fedora core 4 and the drive was fully recognized by anaconda during
> > installation as a 160Gb.
> > Installation went all ok but when I first logged in to my account and
> > checked the available space on disk i noticed that strangely the space
> > available was only 135Gb meaning that approx 30Gb were not counted in.
> > I then upgraded to kernel 2.6.13.1-1532.FC4 hoping to regain the missing
> > space but still no sign of it.
> > I therefore installed QTPArted and checked what the situation was and
> > funny enough the LVM on qtparted is recognized as 160Gb.
> > I also have a 40Gb external HD connected via USB which is fully
> > recognized.
> > 
> > What has happened to the remaining 30GB on the MAxtor HD?
> > 
> > Thanks
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