[ale] Seagate Hdd Not Lining Up!?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> Oh..
> [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?

Yes, that's your partition table.

The start and end numbers refer to the cylinders, and the blocks is the number 
of 1KiB (1024 byte) blocks that are present in the partition.

Looks good.  Use resize2fs on the partition to grow the filesystem to the 
partition size; this will work for ext[234]fs filesystems.  If it is another 
filesystem, you'll need to use it's specific growth utility to grow it.  If it 
was formatted without enough extra growth space, you may need to re-mkfs it in 
order to use the full partition, but most of the time if you use the defaults 
when formatting a filesystem, it should be able to grow to any size 
practically needed.

 	--- Mike