Harddisk Capacity

[bram88]

Hi Guys ^^

i have installed a SNMP agent to monitoring all my server in my office, including the Harddisk capacity. one of my servers is Redhat, which is i got some confusing condition when i compared the harddisk capacity between my SNMP agent and the physical harddisk (i'm using df -h -a command)

in my SNMP agent showed me that the capacity is 187 GB, but when i check to server remotely and i type df -h -a command, it showed me below output :

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.5G 7.0G 2.1G 78% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
tmpfs 1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 49G 5.3G 41G 12% /webapps
none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc

and if i added all the size it doesnt match with the capacity on SNMP agent

my question is, which one is true, whether the SNMP agent or df -a -h Command ?

need your help guys,
and Thanks

[Roxoff]

You put this post on the end of an old thread - I only found it by accident. You should always open a new thread rather than jump on someone else's, it makes it much easier for the volunteers here to answer the question you're asking.

Anyway, have you tried doing 'df -h -H', the -H means to use 1000 instead of 1024 for reported sizes. It may also be that, as you're using the '-h' for 'human readable' that there is a bit of rounding going on.

[atreyu]

also, check out the output of

fdisk -l /dev/sda

(run as root). The first line should show you the disk capacity, irregardless of filesystem overhead, etc.

This command will also show you the output, in MB:

echo "($(cat /sys/block/sda/size)*512)"/1048576|bc -l

(assuming the block size is 512)

[Rubberman]

Have you looked into Nagios for monitoring your servers and systems?

[bram88]

[QUOTE=atreyu;866588]also, check out the output of

fdisk -l /dev/sda

(run as root). The first line should show you the disk capacity, irregardless of filesystem overhead, etc.

i have tried the command and showed me this output :

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1276 7802 52428127+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 7803 8318 4144770 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 8319 24321 128544097+ 5 Extended

could you guys help me to read those output ??couse i'm a newbe in the Linux environment

[jayd512]

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1276 7802 52428127+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 7803 8318 4144770 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 8319 24321 128544097+ 5 Extended

It's reporting that this is a 200 GB disk.
Around 4 GB of Swap.
sda1 is approx 10 GB.
sda2 is approx 50 GB.
sda4 is about 125 GB.

So everything seems to be in order.

[bram88]

so thats meant the disk have 4 partition right?

[rcgreen]

The fourth partition is extended but contains no logical
partitions, so it looks like it is unused.

[bram88]

The fourth partition is extended but contains no logical
partitions, so it looks like it is unused.

what is the meaning of extended exactly? and if that partition is unused why the size is to big?

by the way i want to inform you guys this server is not belong to me its my client property and i have a task to maintenance it
^^

[atreyu]

An extended partition can have logical partitions defined within its boundaries, but it itself is not a partition per se. At least not one that you can format and mount.

The fact that it is big (relatively) and that it is unused are unrelated. If you wanted to access more unused hard drive space, then you could create a logical partition (e.g. /dev/sda5) within the extended partition. You could make it the entire size of the extended partition, or some subset of it. Then you could format it (with ext3, e.g.) and mount it (to /data, e.g.).