[ale] Seagate Hdd Not Lining Up!?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Brian Pitts wrote:

> 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

If the kernel is recent enough, and the filesystem is extXfs, it should be 
growable online.

 	--- Mike