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#1 2010-10-05 17:18:15

new2arch
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System reports incorrect HD size

Finally took the plunge and installed the 64 bit version of Arch.
Everything seems running fine...however...
Filesystem properties in XFCE4 reports an out of the blue size for my 500gb harddrive.

Is there anything I can do to remedy the problem?
Something that might be related to this is that I had to disable IDE and enable AHCI in BIOS in order to make the Arch-system up and running.


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fdisk -l :

Device       Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63      257039      128488+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2          257040      787184      265072+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3          787185    62235809    30724312+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4        62235810   976768064   457266127+  83  Linux

Edit:

Folders /dev,  /proc, /lib report 131072,2 gb. All other folders seem okay.
I'm using ext4.

Last edited by new2arch (2010-10-05 17:29:56)

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#2 2010-10-05 17:35:05

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

Tried pcmanfm and ' / ' doesn't even show up. If I type ' / ' in the input field it works. But if I choose 'properties' pcmanfm crashes.
Is something seriously wrong with my system?

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#3 2010-10-05 18:12:11

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

df -h

output would be more useful here than

fdisk -l

...

That way we can see how and were your partitions are mounted.


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#4 2010-10-05 18:18:46

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

.:B:. wrote:
df -h

output would be more useful here than

fdisk -l

...

That way we can see how and were your partitions are mounted.

Here it goes:

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                   10M  192K  9.9M   2% /dev
/dev/disk/by-uuid/5a3d859b-dc11-44b1-a706-220f21231281
                       29G  3.5G   24G  13% /
shm                   1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             122M   28M   89M  24% /boot
/dev/sda4             430G  160G  248G  40% /home

And fstab:

UUID=5a3d859b-dc11-44b1-a706-220f21231281 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=76f7e1f0-010b-43c3-8ca7-c36da8d496a6 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=faab40ba-19d7-4b56-ba79-7a144c78cf11 /home ext4 defaults,noatime,nosuid 0 1
UUID=fdeff901-dde5-42f0-b3cc-4ab35350e178 swap swap defaults 0 0  

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#5 2010-10-05 18:23:17

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

Please use code tags in your posts. If you don't know how look at your quote of my post (in Edit mode).

Maybe pcmanfm has an issue with the UUID being used for mounting, check if it's the same behaviour when you use the sd? value, if it's still the same, try some other file managers (e.g. thunar) to see if they behave the same way.


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#6 2010-10-05 18:25:18

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

.:B:. wrote:

Please use code tags in your posts. If you don't know how look at your quote of my post (in Edit mode).


Hm. I'm not noticing anything weird in Edit mode.

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#7 2010-10-05 18:28:48

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

.:B:. wrote:

Maybe pcmanfm has an issue with the UUID being used for mounting, check if it's the same behaviour when you use the sd? value, if it's still the same, try some other file managers (e.g. thunar) to see if they behave the same way.

I actually use Thunar as my main file manager. Tried Pcmanfm just to see if it reports similar numbers.
What is sd?

Edit : I think I get it, you want me to replace the UUID in fstab with sda 1 and so on?

Last edited by new2arch (2010-10-05 18:30:07)

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#8 2010-10-05 18:31:39

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

Use [code ] [/code ] around the output that you display (without the spaces of course). Makes for better readability. That is what B was getting at. If you had clicked on Edit on your post # 4, you would have seen the usage of those tags.


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#9 2010-10-05 18:40:33

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

Inxsible wrote:

Use [code ] [/code ] around the output that you display (without the spaces of course). Makes for better readability. That is what B was getting at. If you had clicked on Edit on your post # 4, you would have seen the usage of those tags.

 You mean like this? 

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#10 2010-10-05 19:09:16

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

[clap]Weyhey[/clap]

So you are wondering why your graphical environment is telling you 29GB rather than the 31GB as in df -h for your /?

I am no expert on thunar but would put it down to it rounding.

And what was that about dev and proc? Neither of them should show up as using a significant amount of space but you haven't given us the readout for that anyway - correct?


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#11 2010-10-06 06:18:18

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Re: System reports incorrect HD size

toad wrote:

[clap]Weyhey[/clap]

So you are wondering why your graphical environment is telling you 29GB rather than the 31GB as in df -h for your /?

I am no expert on thunar but would put it down to it rounding.

And what was that about dev and proc? Neither of them should show up as using a significant amount of space but you haven't given us the readout for that anyway - correct?


No, look at my initial post, particularly the printscreen. Thunar reports usage of several hundreds of thousands of gigabytes.
I do not know why dev and proc look the way they do. I have not deviated from the install/ setup recommendations from Archwiki.
I even had the installer partition my drive automatically, except for me adjusting the size.

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