From: Robert Fitzpatrick <li...@webtent.net> > I have my 640GB USB drive connected to a CentOS 5 server and using > fdisk, it seems to show a partition of the correct size, /dev/sdd1, but > after mounting, the drive shows only 244M size. Does the message > received when running fdisk below mean I should reformat this drive, I > can't seemed to figure out how to do that with fdisk. Can someone tell > me how to reformat, if needed? The drive is empty, I formatted a while > back on a Debian machine....
To reformat: umount /dev/sdd1 mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1 (use '-c' to check for bad blocks or/and '-m 0' to get the max space... see the manpage) JD _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos