Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4r /home Partition Only 5GB

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, COMPUTICA wrote:
> What a week!  First I ship one of my servers to be co-located and UPS
> loses it for a couple of days, causing it to be 4 days late on arrival
> (because of the weekend)... Now it has arrived and been activated, but
> I just noticed a problem with it I should have noticed when it was in
> my hands.
>
> I recently completed a complete Restore on it with the OSRCD that came
> with the server when we purchased it in April 2002.
>
> The, after restoring the OS, I had some technicians install software
> such as mod_throttle, neomail, ImageMagik, etc.....
>
> Now, when looking at the "System Status" page, hard drive usage, it
> only shows the /HOME directory as having 5GB's free space in total.
>
> >From my research in the archives, it is obvious I have fallen prey to
> the Cobalt bug that won't recognize the 40GB hard drives and formats
> them as 8's....
>
> So, to avoid having to pay my techs to reinstall all the software, is
> there a way I can make the partition read the correct values...around
> 35GB's?
>

I have done something similar.
http://www.raqware.com/how2.html#FixBigDrive

Gerald
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