[ale] Seagate Hdd Not Lining Up!?

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Marc Ferguson wrote:
 > [root at fergatron ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0b99f72f
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1       38913   312568641   83  Linux
> [root at fergatron ~]# 
> 
> I'm not fully comprehending these outputs. Do they indicate anything of
> significance?
> 

That looks like one (roughly) 320 GB partition to me. You could try to
grow the filesystem by running the following as root

umount /dev/sdb1
e2fcsk -f /dev/sdb1
resize2fs -p /dev/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/backup

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All the best,
Brian Pitts