[Gllug] small hard disk problem

Minty mintywalker at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 21:54:12 UTC 2005


Small problem with new harddrive [1].  It should be 200Gb, but it's
only showing 137.4Gb.

  fdisk /dev/hdb1

shows this size.

having created a single primary partition from/to the suggested values
(1/17753), and formated with

  mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1

and mounted the disk, df -m shows

  129011 1M-blocks, 33 Used, 122426 Available

So, have I been sent a bad drive, or have I hit some bios limitation? 
Or is there some trick to making the remaining ~60Gb appear?

thoughts?

[1] Seagate ST3200826A Barracuda 200GB 7200RPM ATA/100 8MB Cache - OEM
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