Hard drive problems

Orgasma · 04-07-2006, 12:39 PM

My linux server has 2 hard drives, one as /, and the other as /home.

The one that is mounted as /home works, but it should be 80GB, but it shows up as around 200MB. I already tried "ignoring" what it says, but it really thinks it's 200MB big. I think this might be a /etc/fstab problem, so I'm open to any suggestions...

/etc/fstab

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/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults....... 0 1
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/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults........ 0 2

saikee · 04-07-2006, 12:43 PM

List here the content of

Code:

fdisk -l

to show that you got 80Gb in hdb1.

Orgasma · 04-07-2006, 02:23 PM

yup, 'did fdisk -l and got...

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Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 9729 78148161 83 LInux

how 'eva, when i run df in /home....

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
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/dev/hdb1 202220 166454 25326 87% /home

So, still lost

Orgasma · 04-07-2006, 02:28 PM

This would seem to be a simple partition problem, but hdb1 is the only partion on /dev/hdb is hdb1, and it takes up the whole drive

saikee · 04-07-2006, 07:49 PM

It is a strange situation.

I couldn't tell what's wrong. It is possible that partition wasn't formatted properly or the Linux has difficulty in accessing the full drive.

I would suggest you boot up a Live CD and mount hdb1 manually to check its content by another Linux. If the problem persists then you may have to move the content out, delete the partition, reboot it and recreate the /home partition again.