N66W (N66U) How to check ACTUAL USB disk space recognized?

[loveleeyoungae]

Hi everyone,

In short, I'd like to ask how I can check the ACTUAL disk space that the N66W recognize and let me use?

For more info: I have two of 4TB USB hard drives connected to my N66W:
- one is Seagate Expansion Desktop External Drive
- the other is a bare Red NAS WD put in a Plugable Flat Dock enclosure

Both were recognized by the N66W right from the beginning without any hassle. However, from what I know with Windows, in some situations Windows still recognizes the over +2TB disks, but it would just let you use up to 2TB (or 2.19 precisely). That's why I want to be sure about the N66W.

I already did a google search and found this blog post mentioning fdisk command. However, when I tried the command, it output this message "fdisk: device has more than 2^32 sectors, can't use all of them" and only recognized the limit 2.19TB.
However, I think it's because of the fdisk command itself. That's why I'm posting this to ask for your help. It'd also be nice if you could tell me how to check free space left.

Thanks in advance.

 

[joegreat]

Hi everyone,

In short, I'd like to ask how I can check the ACTUAL disk space that the N66W recognize and let me use?

Hi,

The command you are looking for is df. If you issue ist with option -h you will get a similare output like this:

chief@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                27.0M     27.0M         0 100% /
devtmpfs                124.7M         0    124.7M   0% /dev
tmpfs                   124.8M      4.2M    120.6M   3% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock5           32.0M      1.3M     30.7M   4% /jffs
/dev/sda2               916.4G    572.2G    297.7G  66% /tmp/mnt/Data
/dev/sdb2                 6.8G    277.9M      6.2G   4% /tmp/mnt/usb-stick

In general: All the basic commands are linux based and you search should be focusing on linux commands.

With kind regards
Joe

 

[loveleeyoungae]

Oh right, that's neat! Ok, I should have made a search without the keyword "N66U" in this case

Thank you, Joe