On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:55:32PM -0400, Eric Livingston wrote: > I'm using a Promise TX4 RAID card to create a four-disk array, made up of > two pairs of striped, mirrored 60G drives. In other words, I take two 60G > drives and stripe them together into a 120G partition for performance, then > mirror that striped pair with another identical to it for data integrity. > > Anyway, fdisk correctly shows that the RAID disk has 120G available on it > (the sum of the two striped 60G discs), and that almost all of it is > partitioned into a root partition with a little left over for swap and boot. > > However, df reports that the root partition only has 60G on it. It seems > like fdisk is correctly querying the pdcraid module and communicating with > the card to discover the striped 120G virtual disk, while df seems to be > physically querying one of the physical drives in the array and learning > it's only 60G in size.
That's weird - df shouldn't be querying drives at all, it should be looking at filesystems. Have you installed and mounted a filesystem on that huge root partition? Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I don't really care what df thinks if I've really got the full 120G that > fdisk and I think I have. > > So, the key question is: am I going to run out of room at 60G or 120G? How > can I find this out (without trying it, which I'd like to avoid having to > do...). Is there some other utility that can tell me how much actual, > physical storage I have on the disk? > > Thanks, > Eric > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
