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300GB Harddrive mounted as 31GB. Why o why

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I am a newb that has made a Debian Fileserver a while ago and then basically forgotten all of the shell stuff I had learnt. I recently started to run low on storage so I bought another 300GB ide.

After some initial false starts and a bit of Googling, I mkfs.ext3 -t /dev/hdb and then mounted the disk. I then opened fstab and added the new drive before restarting.

Two problems. First, the new disk did not mount automatically,and secondly, and more importantly, it is only being recognised as a 31 GB hard drive.

An help would be great.

Thank You Champs

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what version programs have you got?

Submitted by pinniped on Mon, 2006-10-16 16:13.

kernel:
uname -a

fdisk:
fdisk -v

And how old is your machine?

I have seen reports of very large disks (>180GB) not being correctly used, but I don't recall any solution. They must work though because they are pretty common these days.

You can check this to see if it helps:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html
Actually that page is just the history of the limits, but you can click on a link to get to the contents page.

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