Hard drive capacity only showing 3.4Gb on a 500Gb HDD

[Ultra238a]

Hi,

I've just built a Foxconn 3500 machine and put a 500Gb HDD in it.

Openelec has installed fine from USB and is running well. The problem I have is when I look at the shares for the videos, tv shows and music I'm only seeing 3.4Gb capacity.

I'm new to anything Linux based and I can't see any options to increase the capacity to use the full size of the 500Gb HD.

In the system setting on XBMC it shows there is 465GB of storage available.

Sorry for the NOOB question but I'm a bit stuck.

Cheers in advance.

Paul

[Ultra238a]

Just a quick update.....

I had a play around last night after getting some advice from the IRC chat.

The entire drive is now formatted in EXT4 format (done by XBMC Live disc). There are two partitions on the disc, system and storage. Within storage are the folders for video, music, pictures etc

I'm trying to add these folders as network drives from within Windows 7 Pro. The server shows up fine as do the folders. When I look at one of the folders though it just shows a capacity of 3.4Gb and strangely it shows it as being of NTFS format.

Am I looking in the wrong place for these shares within Windows?

Cheers

Paul

[therio]

It could be that the folders are dynamical: they would grow in size when the maximum has reached. Is something stored in it? NTFS could also be something Windows makes from it.

[Ultra238a]

That was my initial thought as well so I started copying a 5Gb file over to it and it failed at 3.4Gb

[chewitt]

is the drive partitioned under a GPT/GUID scheme or MBR? ..and are you running a 32-bit version of OpenELEC?

[Ultra238a]

Originally the drive was formatted for Windows. I deleted all the partitions though and tried the install again and got the same issues.

I also formatted it using the XBMC Live install disc last night and then re-installed again and got the same issues.

I checked the partions using gpartition (?) in Ubuntu (I took the drive out of the machine and plugged it in via USB) and there were two EXT4 formatted partitions, system and storage - storage seems to take up the majority of the disc.

As for the version of OpenElec, I don't know if it is 32bit or 64bit. I just downloaded the version on the downloads page for Fusion based machines. I have also downloaded the latest offical nightly Eden release.

Cheers

Paul

[Ultra238a]

Ok I've worked it out.

I've been trying to map a network share to a drive letter in Windows 7 and that has been giving me the 3.46Gb space available.

If I put the machine name or IP address in to a file window then I get a list of all of the shares on the Openelec machine. Selecting the video, music or photo folder this way allows me to copy over as many files as I want until the drive is full.

Not sure if this is a bug or not.

Cheers for all the help.

Paul