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SubjectRe: Large disk partition over 300GB
On 10 Jul 1999 22:30:01 -0700, Jeff - <jeff9n@hotmail.com> wrote:
>disk is about 320GB. But the file system only see roughly 265GB. Is this a
>limitation with the kernel or the file system? It is expected that the
>capacity of the formatted partition will be less. But in this case the loss
>is around 55GB (~ %18) which is quite significant.

Reformat your partition with:
mke2fs -b 4096 -i 16384 -m 0 -s 1 /dev/device

You may want to read the mke2fs and decide whether you want to decrease -i a
bit and maybe set -m to 1 instead of 0.

Marc
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