On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:06:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
To follow up my own response... I'll bet you had a filesystem on that drive before you put it into the array, right? Good thing there's nothing on it you want. Unmount it, replace it by running /sbin/mkfs on the array, and then mount it - you'll find that missing space you've been looking for. Nathan > > 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 > > > -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
