On Tuesday 20 August 2002 03:12, Pixel wrote: > Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is observed with MDK 9.0 B2 > > I have a USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive. When I > > try to use diskdrake to set up my partitions on this removable archive > > volume, it all looks good untill I reboot then the partitions are broke, > > and diskdrake shows they have never been formatted. I had formated and > > moved data on and back off before the reboot. > > This seems to be a repeatable error > > I have one partition of 70 GB using a fat32 filesystem. > > It will also not let me chown, or chmod the directory so that any user on > > the system can add folders and files to the partition. > > I can't help you with such information. I don't see what that could > be. You have to find out more on your own more:
Now diskdrake shows the external usb drive /dev/sdb as 76GB Cylinder 0 to 10011 then I click on the blank space, select Create, it defaults to having the Size in MB slide all the way over to 78533, fine I will leave it there. Default file system is ext3, this I changed to FAT32. Under mount point it allowed me to type in /home/scann. clicked OK Details Mount point: /home/scann Device: sdb1 Dos drive letter: C (just a Guess0 Type: FAT32 Size: 76GB It formatted, mounted, updated the mbr of sdb and etc/fstab, and I clicked done. I then launched konqueror, navigated to /home, and looked at the properties of scann` Free space on /home/scann: 708.0MB/708.0MB (0% used) Why is it not showing 76GB? then I tried this: [root@Spool home]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 241116 68756 159912 31% / none 193312 0 193312 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda9 1746836 1713600 33236 99% /Archive /dev/hda2 3070432 1285464 1784968 42% /mnt/windows /dev/hda7 1280744 1004084 211600 83% /usr /dev/hda8 1407264 94172 1241608 8% /var 192.168.0.254:/home 8396520 6607944 1788576 79% /home /dev/sdb1 724996 4 724992 1% /home/scann [root@Spool home]# Note that /dev/sdb1 shows as being 724996 in size, what happened to all my space? rebooting DiskDrake still shows /dev/sdb as being 76GB and df still gives the same output. Konqueror still shows it as being 708MB I will now try copying several GB of data onto sdb. -- "The place of the material world in the universe is that of an exquisitely beautiful precipitate or varied cloud-work in the universal Ęther, determined by a geometrical necessity...." ~ Professor John G. Macvicar1870 ~ Brent Hasty http://www.Hasty-Solutions.com
