Mounted External Drive Doesn't Show Correct Size

Question

I have an external USB drive with 2.0 TB connected to a machine running Ubuntu Server 14.04.

I used:

fdisk -l

and I can see that my at dev/sdd1. Here is the output:

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdd'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 3907029167 1953514583+ ee GPT

I mount it using:

sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /media/Backup

And when I use df -h this is what I get:

/dev/sdd1 190M 1.6M 175M 1% /media/Backup

As you can see the drive size is 2 TB but I'm only getting 190 MB. I'm fairly new to Ubuntu and linux so excuse my ignorance.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Did you try actually copying a Gb of info there? It can be a bug in df only. Did you try reformatting HDD? By the way, check the size in GParted or any other tool that really understands GPT. Re-create GPT table using GParted, the create partition. If this disk is linux-only, use btrfs file system, otherwise you have to use NTFS.
If after recreating GPT you still see small size in GParted, you disk is damaged or fake.

Answer 2

The Error fdisk is giving you is that it doesn't understand gpt partition tables. This means you need a different piece of software the guy above said using gparted but if u don't have a gui u must type in terminal

parted

after u must type

print all

This will shows all hard drive info. This will also all the partitions like fdisk