On 2011/06/03 06:47, Alec T. Habig wrote:
> James Holland writes:
>> Don't know why this is... But check how big your other partitions
>> are using gparted.
>
> Could it be that he's comparing the "1TB" drives he's bought (which are
> marketed as decimal 1x10^12 bytes) with the expected (binary) 2^40 bytes?
>
> That's a 10% reduction in perceived space.  If the disk format has also
> reserved the traditional (and now obsolete) 10% for root use only, then
> suddenly we're 2.5 TB down from what one would naively expect after
> clicking on "Newegg, please send me 12 terabyte drives".
>
> gparted will show the whole capacity (ignoring this root reserve), but
> "df" won't.

How big are /, /boot, and /swap?

(I'm old fashioned and silly, I like "/dev/fdisk -l /dev/sda >foo" as
a way of exporting the actual partitioning. I am not sure fdisk would
be happy with 12 TB, though. But showing us the actual partitioning
might be a good idea.)

{o.o}	Joanne. (Imprinted on the old tools back in about '88 on of
        all things "Amiga Unix.")