Re: [PLUG] linux hard drive troubles

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

Michael Lazin wrote:

> I tried cfdisk and I got the same problem.  Curiously, hda2 and hdb1, my
> new hard drive, look the same.  The new hard drive is a brand new 40 gig
> drive.  It is set as the slave.  What is going on here?
>  
> [root@localhost michael]# df -h /dev/hdb1
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1             3.5G  1.9G  1.5G  55%
> [root@localhost michael]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             3.5G  1.9G  1.5G  55% /
> /dev/hda1              99M   14M   80M  15% /boot
> none                   94M     0   94M   0% /dev/shm
>  

That is curious.  Just for the sake of something to try, what happens if 
you mount the drive before running "df -h"?

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