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Tae

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Registered: 2010-08-31

Posts: 32

[Solved] cfdisk: 128 GB, mkfs: 26 GB

Hi there:

I had 2 NTFS partitions in the same HD wherein Arch is installed. I unmounted and eliminate them with cfdisk and then did a new partition with all the free space, resulting in 128 GB. Then I formatted:

sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 -L home

or

sudo mke2fs -t ext3 -L home /dev/sda1

or

sudo mke2fs -t ext4 -L home /dev/sda1

or

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 -L home

or

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

Then

sudo mount -a

But with all the commands, all I get is a new partition of 26GB, reported by Nautilus and df -h. No errors. According to cfdisk the partition still have a size of 128 GB and doesn't have any associated label, according to Nautilus it does. Any clue why this may be happenig?

Thanks beforehand.

Last edited by Tae (2012-12-16 14:11:39)

R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: [Solved] cfdisk: 128 GB, mkfs: 26 GB

You sure you really wanted to format sda1? 'mount -a' will only mount the partitions listed in fstab (do you have the partition correctly listen in fstab?), also did you force a reload of the partition table _before_ formatting the partition?

Whats the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' ?

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Tae

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Registered: 2010-08-31

Posts: 32

Re: [Solved] cfdisk: 128 GB, mkfs: 26 GB

I did not reload the partition table. I had always created them when installing a new system, so I did not know I had to do it ^ ^ Thanks for the help, R00KIE.