Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 02:51:06 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: "Xavier AlfeirXn S." <xavier@labna.itmerida.mx>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Difernces between HD space Message-ID: <39B4437A.720C3AF@gmx.de> References: <Pine.A32.3.93.1000904180538.14396A-100000@labna.itmerida.mx>
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Hello Xavier, > I'm using FreeBSD 4.0 on a IBM 300gl with a 6Gb Maxtor Hard Disk, but I > did not noticed that I was only using half de space of the HD, here is the > fdisk report: > ******* Working on device /dev/rad0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=782 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=782 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 6305985 (3079 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 781/ sector 63/ head 127 > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > <UNUSED> So what is the actual number of cylinders your disk have? Look in your BIOS, on your disk itself, or easiest in dmesg. If you find that you actually have more than 782 cylinders just add another slice with fdisk. Then disklabel and newfs this new slice and you´re gone. If you need more details feel free to contact me again. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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