sh123469 Posted February 4, 2004 Report Share Posted February 4, 2004 I just installed a new hard disk in my system. Mandrake 9.1. Pretty much default install. new drive is 20 gb partition in 18 and 2 gb partitions 18 gb partition is ext3. mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1 it is reporting as 5.9 gb but when I use diskdrake to view the partitions, it shows the correct size. I have tried putting more than 5.9 gb of files on the drive and it says it is full when I get to 5.9. Anyone got any ideas what I did wrong? Thanks Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 4, 2004 Report Share Posted February 4, 2004 overlapping partitions? I d/k...just a guess. Parted (on the cd's) is good at fixing overlapping partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh123469 Posted March 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 Thanks, BVC, That was the problem. When I looked at the partitions as you suggested instead of using diskdrake, I saw the problem. I had to remove all of the partitions on the drive and repartition it. Now I have the full size of the drive available as an ext3 file system and shared via Samba for my wife's windows system to use as well. Thanks again Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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