hd not showing correct size in gui

[scr3amingeagle]

i bought a new 1.5 terrabyte hard drive and put it in as a secondary drive. it is formatted as ntfs since i need to be able to access it from windows. i copied my data from my old storage drive onto it. i keep getting messages from the gui that it is almost out of space (it is showing in the gui as a 160gb drive like the old storage drive) but when i sudo fdisk -l it shows up as a 1.5 terrabytes.

any suggestions?

[dibl]

Re: hd not showing correct size in gui

Open a Konsole window and check for free disk space on all partitions:

sudo df -h

and post your output here. It may reveal something.

[scr3amingeagle]

Re: hd not showing correct size in gui

dh -h only shows sda not sdb.

i did get an odd error when i attempted to mount "NTFS signature is missing"

[vinnywright]

Re: hd not showing correct size in gui

post the fdisk -l

and how did you copy the data?

VINNY

[Zorael]

Re: hd not showing correct size in gui

Yeah, if you copied the whole partition using a cloning app like partimage, you'd still have a 160gb partition on that new drive regardless of its full capacity.

[scr3amingeagle]

Re: hd not showing correct size in gui

it is no longer showing up in fdisk.

i manually copied the data over (drag & drop).

[scr3amingeagle]

Re: hd not showing correct size in gui

i think i'm just going to reformat it into ext3.

[dibl]

Re: hd not showing correct size in gui

i think i'm just going to reformat it into ext3.

OK -- fine, but the problem that you described is not caused by a filesystem format issue -- there's something funny going on if fdisk can't see an internal hard drive. I would advise you to review the basics -- cables, connections, BIOS info, etc., before you launch GParted and format it. I would want to make sure the system is seeing the hard drive correctly, as a device, before fiddling with the filesystem format and /etc/fstab and all of that. Two cents' worth.

One further thought -- if your BIOS is older, it may have problems with such a large hdd. Maybe you need to partition it into a couple of 750GB partitions, or something like that.

[vinnywright]

Re: hd not showing correct size in gui

i think i'm just going to reformat it into ext3.

OK -- fine, but the problem that you described is not caused by a filesystem format issue -- there's something funny going on if fdisk can't see an internal hard drive. I would advise you to review the basics -- cables, connections, BIOS info, etc., before you launch GParted and format it. I would want to make sure the system is seeing the hard drive correctly, as a device, before fiddling with the filesystem format and /etc/fstab and all of that. Two cents' worth.

One further thought -- if your BIOS is older, it may have problems with such a large hdd. Maybe you need to partition it into a couple of 750GB partitions, or something like that.

I agrey with dibl .........+ if it was last acsessed with windows or kubuntu and not cleanly unmounted it could be as simpel as runing CHKDSK /f from windows CLI that is if windows can see it and if it cant wear back to dibl's thought's

VINNY