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From: Andrew Frink <andrew.frink@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:05:14
Message-Id: 8146fc8a0603150758r6784b37fh3ba45356a3877c2d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space by Nich Steicke
1 Did you grow/shrink reiserfs on those partitions after you resized them?
2
3 On 3/14/06, Nich Steicke <nano-tech@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
4 >
5 > Hey everyone,
6 >
7 > I have recently moved, and resized the partitions on my 120GB hdd
8 > (/dev/hdb). I moved and resized the partitions as there is data i very
9 > much want to keep, but dont have hard disk space elese where to back it up
10 > during a compleat re-write of the drive.
11 >
12 > The process was going well, and everything i wanted was on my new reiserfs
13 > partition (/dev/hdb1). I had deleated some stuff that i no longer needed
14 > or wanted during the process and so i checked to see how much space i had
15 > freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free
16 > space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and found
17 > that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size,
18 > detales are as follows:
19 >
20 > Parted:
21 > Using /dev/hdb
22 > (parted) print
23 > Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0kB - 120GB
24 > Disk label type: msdos
25 > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
26 > 1 32kB 87GB 87GB primary reiserfs
27 > 2 87GB 119GB 32GB primary fat32 lba
28 > 4 119GB 120GB 543MB primary linux-swap
29 > (parted)
30 >
31 > df -h (extract):
32 > /dev/hdb1 67G 43G 24G 65% /mnt/hdb
33 > /dev/hdb2 30G 28G 2.8G 91% /mnt/games
34 >
35 > size of /dev/hdb4:
36 > /dev/hdb4 is a 518MB swap partition
37 >
38 > and incase you would like this infomation:
39 >
40 > fdisk:
41 > Command (m for help): p
42 >
43 > Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
44 > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
45 > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
46 >
47 > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
48 > /dev/hdb1 1 10631 85393476 83 Linux
49 > /dev/hdb2 10632 14527 31294620 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
50 > /dev/hdb4 14528 14593 530145 82 Linux swap /
51 > Solaris
52 >
53 > Thanks for u help;
54 > Nich Steicke
55 > ---------------------
56 > http://narthollis.net
57 >
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60 >
61 >

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