[UUG/MLUG] Large Harddrive

[Jay Buffington <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I bought a 17.3 gig harddrive and put in an old machine that doesn't do
LBA.

the bios correctly sees that it has 16383 cyl. 16 heads and 63 sectors
(I belive thats the geometry that says "I'm a drive over 8.1 gigs").

the output of fdisk looks like this:

[EMAIL:PROTECTED /root]# fdisk /dev/hdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 33416.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 33416 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1             1     33416  16841632+  83  Linux

Command (m for help):

which looks good.  but then df says this:

[EMAIL:PROTECTED /root]# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1              7932792   7521532         0 100% /home/roundup


So how do I get the rest of my drive?

(hopefully without repartition, I want one big partition)

other useful information:

[EMAIL:PROTECTED /root]# cat /proc/ide/hdb/geometry
physical     -32120/16/63
logical      -32120/16/63
[EMAIL:PROTECTED /root]# cat /proc/ide/hdb/capacity
33683328


anyone have any ideas?

Jay