I'm a bit stuck with this one, so hopefully someone can either point out what I'm doing wrong or tell me this is normal:
Basically I'm trying to setup a RAID5 array of 3x320GB seagate disks on RedHat9 (best distro Promise provide drivers for). Under XP and Vista I had 596GB usable space using NTFS. On EXT3 I seem to have ended up with considerably less. Firstly I'm about 9GB down (2%) for the listed size, and secondly I'm down 30GB when it comes to available space. I created the partitions using 'parted' as listed in the RH9 manual and made sure I used the whole capacity, indeed it listed the partition as 610000M in parted which = 596G.
When it was formatted as NTFS I'm pretty sure it listed Size as 596G as it was on Windows, so I'm a little stumped as to what's losing me 39GB!!
Basically I'm trying to setup a RAID5 array of 3x320GB seagate disks on RedHat9 (best distro Promise provide drivers for). Under XP and Vista I had 596GB usable space using NTFS. On EXT3 I seem to have ended up with considerably less. Firstly I'm about 9GB down (2%) for the listed size, and secondly I'm down 30GB when it comes to available space. I created the partitions using 'parted' as listed in the RH9 manual and made sure I used the whole capacity, indeed it listed the partition as 610000M in parted which = 596G.
Code:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 74G 1.7G 69G 3% /
/dev/hda1 99M 9.4M 85M 10% /boot
none 488M 0 488M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 587G 33M 557G 1% /mnt/storageWhen it was formatted as NTFS I'm pretty sure it listed Size as 596G as it was on Windows, so I'm a little stumped as to what's losing me 39GB!!
