Messages in this thread | | | Date | 12 Jul 1999 21:44:36 GMT | From | (Marc MERLIN) | Subject | Re: Large disk partition over 300GB |
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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.
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