10 Gig Limit??

[JustSomeDude]

Is there a 10 gig limit on HD size? I've tried both LXDE and XFCE, both installs were with full reformat on 20 (18.7) gig HD, giving the full HD (no portions) to the OS.

Both only saw about 10 gigs. 

[Sproggy]

when setting up on a HDD always do custom partitioning ... then you can set up the partitions you need ... for a 20gb HDD .. i would got with 1gb swap ... 9gb / and the rest for /home

Kori

[T6]

depending on the amount of ram that 1 gb sounds ok, in your case i wouldn't divide between / and /home, all would be /

home would be a folder inside /

[YouCanToo]

Is there a 10 gig limit on HD size? I've tried both LXDE and XFCE, both installs were with full reformat on 20 (18.7) gig HD, giving the full HD (no portions) to the OS.

Both only saw about 10 gigs. 

No, there are no such limits. I have a LXDE box here running on a 80 gig drive just fine.  Perhaps you need to check your settings better when you formatted them.  Which options did you choose when formatting them?

[JustSomeDude]

Is there a 10 gig limit on HD size? I've tried both LXDE and XFCE, both installs were with full reformat on 20 (18.7) gig HD, giving the full HD (no portions) to the OS.

Both only saw about 10 gigs. 

No, there are no such limits. I have a LXDE box here running on a 80 gig drive just fine.  Perhaps you need to check your settings better when you formatted them.  Which options did you choose when formatting them?

The settings on format, was to give it the whole drive. But it looks like XFCE doesn't like my on board video or visa-verse. I keep getting colored lines across the screen, granted they're pretty, but unwanted lol!

Right now I'm in Gnome to come here, but not a full install of it. I'm thinking of reformatting and going with Zen, since I really like the PCLOS. So any hints on reformatting so it takes the whole HD would be much appreciated!!

[Bald Brick]

Is there a 10 gig limit on HD size?

No, as YouCanToo wrote, there is not. I have a 326GB partition on one 1TB drive a 318GB on another.

I've tried both LXDE and XFCE, both installs were with full reformat on 20 (18.7) gig HD, giving the full HD (no portions) to the OS.

Both only saw about 10 gigs.  

You must have at least one partition. You can only install to one or several partitions, not to an unpartitioned drive. But if you only have one partition, that one partition should take up all of the space on the drive. In your case it apparently doesn't.

Please open a terminal and post the output of the command

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fdisk -l -u=cylinders
Some people would insist that you enter the command as root, but actually you don't have to. (The "-l" option is a lower case L.)

So any hints on reformatting so it takes the whole HD would be much appreciated!!

Normally it shouldn't require any magical spells. Diskdrake should be able to handle it. But if you run fdisk with the above options we might get an idea of what has gone wrong with your current installation.

[pags]

Is there a 10 gig limit on HD size?

No, as YouCanToo said, there is not. I have a 326GB partition on one 1TB drive a 318GB on another.

I've tried both LXDE and XFCE, both installs were with full reformat on 20 (18.7) gig HD, giving the full HD (no portions) to the OS.

Both only saw about 10 gigs. 

You must have at least one partition. You can only install to a partition, not to an unpartitioned drive. But if you only have one, that one partition should take up all of the space on the drive. Apparently it doesn't in your case.

Please open a terminal and post the output of the command

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fdisk -l -u=cylinders
Some people would insist that you enter the command as root, but actually you don't have to. (The "-l" option is a lower case L.)

Well, actually you can install to the raw device (this is Linux after, all, and the user has a lot of control!  ), but it really isn't a good idea, and has little benefit...

Some might be right...depends on how things are setup?

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[jpaglia@gx620 Videos]$ fdisk -l
[jpaglia@gx620 Videos]$ fdisk -l -u=cylinders
[jpaglia@gx620 Videos]$


Oh, and no 10 GB limit here:

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[jpaglia@grendel ~]$ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             9.4G  7.9G  1.1G  88% /
/dev/sda6             218G   43G  175G  20% /mnt/oldhome
/dev/sdb1             1.4T  1.0T  375G  74% /home
[jpaglia@grendel ~]$

Yes that is a Terabyte partition (it's a bugger to backup  ), and this install still needs to be updated from 2009...

When I finally get around to it, I figure /dev/sda6 can become the new root, at 218G, and /dev/sda1 will languish for a while as a backup...

[Bald Brick]

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[quote author=pags link=topic=89674.msg754503#msg754503 date=1303156736]
[color=red]Well[/color], actually you can install to the raw device (this is Linux after, all, and the user has a lot of control!  ;)), but it really isn't a good idea, and has little benefit...

You are right, of course, but I don't think the PCLOS installer will let you do it.

 

[Bald Brick]

And I wasn't entirely correct in another respect either:

There is indeed a limit on how large a partition on a hard drive can be. It varies depending on the filesystem, and for instance an EXT4 partition can't be larger than 1 exabyte (EB). (That's fifty million times the size of JustSomeDude's hard drive.) But some filesystems can handle much larger partitions than that. (Would the rest of the system be able to handle them? No idea, but I doubt it.)

[JustSomeDude]

Is there a 10 gig limit on HD size?

No, as YouCanToo wrote, there is not. I have a 326GB partition on one 1TB drive a 318GB on another.

I've tried both LXDE and XFCE, both installs were with full reformat on 20 (18.7) gig HD, giving the full HD (no portions) to the OS.

Both only saw about 10 gigs.  

You must have at least one partition. You can only install to one or several partitions, not to an unpartitioned drive. But if you only have one partition, that one partition should take up all of the space on the drive. In your case it apparently doesn't.

Please open a terminal and post the output of the command

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fdisk -l -u=cylinders
Some people would insist that you enter the command as root, but actually you don't have to. (The "-l" option is a lower case L.)

So any hints on reformatting so it takes the whole HD would be much appreciated!!

Normally it shouldn't require any magical spells. Diskdrake should be able to handle it. But if you run fdisk with the above options we might get an idea of what has gone wrong with your current installation.

Well, I couldn't get fdisk -l to run in the normal terminal, but it did run in the xterminal, but only gave me further options. So I did the next best thing....



So it looks like it's all there, just was split on install.

[Bald Brick]

So it looks like it's all there, just was split on install.

So it seems.

And if you are going to reinstall (or install another version of PCLinuxOS) you probably should take T6's advice and make the whole drive (except the gig used for swap) one single partition. In that way you would use the drive space much more economically.

I can't understand why fdisk refused to run. (Perhaps you should have tried running it as root in spite of what I wrote.)