Partition information!!!

[Stuart Sears]

Govind C enlightened us with the following gems on 08/24/2005 08:00 AM:
> Folks,
> I have SUN "SS3315" attached to Linux Box running Redhat3.0 UP5.I had 
> created a logical drive of 750GB and mapped the LUN to linux box.
> 
> [root at console root]# fdisk /dev/sdc
> 
> Disk /dev/sdc: 749.3 GB, 749347012608 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91102 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdc1             1     91102 731776783+  83  Linux
> 
> [root at console root]# df -k
> /dev/sdc1            288378940 214279140  59450932  79% /san
> 
> Why is it that /dev/sdc1 shows only 290GB when the total size is 
> 750GB.Am I missing out any configuration?
is the filesystem size different to the partition size?
This is what is suggested by the output above.
fdisk  will show you partition sizes
df will show you the filesystem size on a mounted partition.
what type of filesystem is this?

Stuart


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