Space error when adding a new hard drive

**Edman** · 04-25-2007

I've got a new 400GB HDD (a third one) added on my server at /dev/hdc1

I tried adding it using WHM's "Format/Mount a new Hard Drive" option. During the process my internet connection froze, and once it came back up, I tried to restart the process, but was met with a "Sorry I could not find any new disks" message.

I checked the HDD list, and there it was, /dev/hdc1 mounted at /home3, but the disk size was 99MB. I tried unmounting and mounting again, but the size stayed the same.

I tried doing

Code:

mke2fs /dev/hdc1

which finished with no errors and then did

Code:

mount /dev/hdc1 /home3/

but the drive size is still 99MB. It's not a display error either, I tried copying files to it, and after 99MB got the "No space left on device" message.

yet under device description it says

Code:

hdc: max request size: 1024KiB
hdc: 781422768 sectors (400088 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=48641/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: cache flushes supported

which is 400GBs... so how on earth do I get access to the rest of the HDD's capacity?

**TheBigPhish** · 04-25-2007

what does CFDISK show?

**bigtomrodney** · 04-25-2007

The problem is that hdc1 is the partition you created so to make it into another filesystem won't change its size. As mentioned try to use cfdisk to delete hdc1 and create a new partition from scratch. If you get stuck or are not comfortable using cfdisk consider installing gparted and using that or even better get the gparted live CD

**Edman** · 04-26-2007

I tried doing cfdisk, but it says

Code:

-bash: cfdisk: command not found

I tried to do

Code:

yum install cfdisk

and the response was

Code:

Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: cfdisk
Nothing to do

So I'm not sure, how do I run it?

**bigtomrodney** · 04-26-2007

I think cfdisk might be in /sbin/ - and it may need to be run as root. Try switching to root with full path first

Code:

su -

I think all distros have it.

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