OpenSUSE Install :: DF Reports Completely Different Sizes From FDisk
Sep 13, 2011
Opensuse Linux (Linux sr-server 2.6.37.6-0.7-default #1 SMP 2011-07-21 02:17:24 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux). I have a very unusual problem where fdisk reports one size BUT df reports a TOTALLY different and unexpected size. Besides doing a full backup, repartition, reformat and restore, is there anything else I can try first??
Here are the outputs: (sda1 and sda2 sizes are completely different from fdisk!!)
df -v -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 22G 17G 4.2G 81% /
devtmpfs 369M 152K 368M 1% /dev
tmpfs 375M 648K 374M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 22G 17G 4.2G 81% /
/dev/sda1 15G 7.8G 6.6G 54% /windows/C
FDISK reports correctly (sda1, sda2, sda3 = 24Gb, 949Gb, 3.1gb) .....
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I have some WD20EARS drives that I am trying to format into a pair of Linux software RAID1 devices. The problem is that at seemingly random steps during the process, the operating system decides the disk is a size much smaller than it actually is (2 TB, or as reported by the OS when it is acting normal, 1.82 TB). I follow this general layout of steps: first, I do fdisk -u /dev/sd[x], create a primary partition spanning the whole disk starting from sector 64 (to align the advanced format blocks properly). I set the partition type to fd (software RAID autodetect). Then, I assemble the arrays with mdadm:
Code:
mdadm --create /dev/md[z] --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[x]1 dev/sd[y]1
And then I create an ext4 filesystem:
Code:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/md[z]
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Code:
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Code:
> cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.27.56-0.1-pae (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2010-12-01 16:57:58 +0100
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Code:
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Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
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