Hello
I have a 160GB SATA drive available that I'd like to use with a single NTFS partition to back up 44GB of data from another disk.
fdisk let me create a single 160GB partition, but for some reason, after running mkntfs, the partition is only 497MB.
Here's the infos:
Code:
/mnt/sdc5# du -h --max-depth=1 .
...
44G ./Documents
...
/mnt/sdc5# fdisk -l
#NOTE : sdc = SOURCE
Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976 773 168 sectors (* 512 = 500GB)
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x836e6fed
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 16065 390716864 195350400 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdc5 16128 390716864 195350368+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
#NOTE : sdb = TARGET
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 61254 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors (* 512 = 160GB)
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xddadddad
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 312581807 156289880 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/mnt# mkntfs -f /dev/sdb1 -L "Backup Disk E"
Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day.
root@slax:/mnt# df -h /dev/sdb1
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
- 497M 0 497M 0% /dev
Why is the new partition only 497MB?
Thanks for any help.
Edit: Found it. "df" only works on mounted drive.
Mkntfs : 160GB disk, but 500MB partition?
