I'm trying to setup 4 4.51gig scsi drives. I used the following to setup the drives:
(victor)[root:~#] mke2fs -c -v /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Linux ext2 filesystem format Filesystem label= 1101824 inodes, 4401778 blocks 220088 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 538 block groups 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 2048 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: ....etc And I did this for each one of the 4 drives.... Here is what 'df' says about the drives: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hdb1 705433 485054 183942 73% / /dev/sda1 4253289 509553 3523648 13% /var/sda1 /dev/sdb1 4253289 13 4033188 0% /var/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 4253289 13 4033188 0% /var/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 4253289 13 4033188 0% /var/sdd1 This says I have 4,033,188 to play with plus 220,088 for reserved. Now, if I add those together I get 4,253,276. This is not even close to the stated formatted capacity of 4.51gigs. What am I missing here ?? Is there a way to optimize the formatting of large harddrives to get the most out of them, or should 'mke2fs -c -v /dev/sdxx' always be used ? Thanks ! Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .