samba export HD shows less capacity in windows

[vagabond]

I hope this is the right thread...

I use Fedora 11, and have an external HD (USB) which has 4 partitions of 500GB each.

/dev/sdb1 is an NTFS partition that is exported to my windows machine using samba.

However, only 75GB is visible in windows (via rt.click properties).

Anyways, below is output from fdisk -l. What other info can I post to help answer this question: why does windows see only 75GB of a partition that is 500GB in linux?

thanks in advance for all the help.

vagabond

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fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ac734

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 9726 77923282+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 1999.6 GB, 1999696297984 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243115 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x42fb6158

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 63741 511999551 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 63742 127482 511999582+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb3 127483 191223 511999582+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 191224 243115 416822490 83 Linux
/dev/sdb5 63742 127482 511999551 7 HPFS/NTFS

[vagabond]

Would anyone know why a samba exported partition may show only 75GB in windows but 500GB in linux?

I have 4 partitions of 500GB each on an external 2TB USB drive in linux. The first partition on this drive is /dev/sda1 and is an ntfs partition that was exported via samba but windows only sees 75GB.

thanks in advance,

vagabond

[svan9420]

You might want to check with the SAMBA folks on this one. It could be a bug in their code and how Samba interprets the size of a disk volume.

[vagabond]

Thanks for the response - I will follow up with SAMBA folks on the windows side.

One more linux thing to check: I find it odd that the output from fdisk -l shows 5 partitions, not 4. sdb1,sdb2,sdb3, and sdb5 are all ~500GB which is max capacity on my 2TB drive.

However, sdb4 shows ~400GB. I just want to make sure that this table is not somehow related to the confusion on the windows side for sdb1.

screenshot of GParted is attached.

thanks,

vagabond

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 63741 511999551 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 63742 127482 511999582+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb3 127483 191223 511999582+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 191224 243115 416822490 83 Linux
/dev/sdb5 63742 127482 511999551 7 HPFS/NTFS
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