I'm about to format my new 4Tb drive as Ext4, but before I do, I wanted to see how it shows up "out-of-the-box" and got some strange results. I'm pretty sure formatting as Ext4 will solve this, but I'm curious if anyone can explain the following:
I mounted the drive and I see: [solomon@shlomo1 ~]$ df |grep Seagate /dev/sdj1 3.7T 203M 3.7T 1% /run/media/solomon/Seagate Expansion Drive [root@shlomo1 solomon]# fdisk /dev/sdj Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.24.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdj: 3.7 TiB, 4000787025920 bytes, 976754645 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xc64aae83 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdj1 2048 976752639 3907002368 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT But, when I run the "Manage Disk Partitions" utility in Mageia's Control Center I can see 1 "small" NTFS partition and another 1.9Tb of un-allocated space for a total of only about 60% of the disk: Device: sdj1 Volume label: Seagate_Expansion_Drive DOS drive letter: C (just a guess) Type: NTFS-3G Size: 465GB (12%) Empty Size: 1.9TB (54%) Cylinder 60800 to 328149 After hitting the "clear all" button I see more or less the proper size: Device: sdj Size: 3.6TB Name: NA4KTWL4 As I wrote, I'm quite sure formatting EXT4 will solve this, but WTF? -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.12.15 - LINUX Mageia 4 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
