[gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space

[gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space

[Nich Steicke]

Hey everyone,

I have recently moved, and resized the partitions on my 120GB hdd
(/dev/hdb). I moved and resized the partitions as there is data i very
much want to keep, but dont have hard disk space elese where to back it up
during a compleat re-write of the drive.

The process was going well, and everything i wanted was on my new reiserfs
partition (/dev/hdb1). I had deleated some stuff that i no longer needed
or  wanted during the process and so i checked to see how much space i had
freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free
space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and found
that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size,
detales are as follows:

Parted:
  Using /dev/hdb
  (parted) print
  Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0kB - 120GB
  Disk label type: msdos
  Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
  1       32kB    87GB    87GB    primary   reiserfs
  2       87GB    119GB   32GB    primary   fat32        lba
  4       119GB   120GB   543MB   primary   linux-swap
  (parted)

df -h (extract):
  /dev/hdb1              67G   43G   24G  65% /mnt/hdb
  /dev/hdb2              30G   28G  2.8G  91% /mnt/games

size of /dev/hdb4:
  /dev/hdb4 is a 518MB swap partition

and incase you would like this infomation:

fdisk:
  Command (m for help): p

  Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/hdb1               1       10631    85393476   83  Linux
  /dev/hdb2           10632       14527    31294620    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
  /dev/hdb4           14528       14593      530145   82  Linux swap /
Solaris

Thanks for u help;
Nich Steicke
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Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space [FIXED]

[Nich Steicke]

> The process was going well, and everything i wanted was on my new reiserfs
> partition (/dev/hdb1). I had deleated some stuff that i no longer needed
> or  wanted during the process and so i checked to see how much space i had
> freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free
> space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and found
> that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size,
> detales are as follows:
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well its all fixed - i ran 'resize_reiserfs /dev/hdb1' as susjested by a
friend (who was out all day) and i can now access all of my hard disk
space :)


Nich Steicke
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Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space

[Andrew Frink]

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Did you grow/shrink reiserfs on those partitions after you resized them?

On 3/14/06, Nich Steicke <nano-tech@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I have recently moved, and resized the partitions on my 120GB hdd
> (/dev/hdb). I moved and resized the partitions as there is data i very
> much want to keep, but dont have hard disk space elese where to back it up
> during a compleat re-write of the drive.
>
> The process was going well, and everything i wanted was on my new reiserfs
> partition (/dev/hdb1). I had deleated some stuff that i no longer needed
> or  wanted during the process and so i checked to see how much space i had
> freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free
> space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and found
> that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size,
> detales are as follows:
>
> Parted:
>   Using /dev/hdb
>   (parted) print
>   Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0kB - 120GB
>   Disk label type: msdos
>   Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
>   1       32kB    87GB    87GB    primary   reiserfs
>   2       87GB    119GB   32GB    primary   fat32        lba
>   4       119GB   120GB   543MB   primary   linux-swap
>   (parted)
>
> df -h (extract):
>   /dev/hdb1              67G   43G   24G  65% /mnt/hdb
>   /dev/hdb2              30G   28G  2.8G  91% /mnt/games
>
> size of /dev/hdb4:
>   /dev/hdb4 is a 518MB swap partition
>
> and incase you would like this infomation:
>
> fdisk:
>   Command (m for help): p
>
>   Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
>   255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
>   Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>   /dev/hdb1               1       10631    85393476   83  Linux
>   /dev/hdb2           10632       14527    31294620    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>   /dev/hdb4           14528       14593      530145   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
> Thanks for u help;
> Nich Steicke
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> http://narthollis.net
>
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>

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Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space

[Quag7]

>         
>         freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained
>         more free 
>         space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround,
>         and found
>         that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the
>         wrong size,
>         detales are as follows:

I've never used reiserfs and this may be obvious, but I'll throw it out
in case its not - this doesn't have anything to do with the "reserved
space for the root user," does it?  When I go to create the filesystem
for ext3, I have to manually specify not to reserve 5% of the disk space
per filesystem for the "root user" - this is, I take it, to keep the
system bootable and the file system accessible in the event that, say, a
runaway log issue should fill it up.

May have nothing to do with your problem but I figure I'd mention it
just in case.

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Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space

[Andrew Frink]

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Reiserfs does the same thing, 5% saved for root.

On 3/15/06, Quag7 <coldfront@frostwarning.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >         freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained
> >         more free
> >         space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround,
> >         and found
> >         that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the
> >         wrong size,
> >         detales are as follows:
>
> I've never used reiserfs and this may be obvious, but I'll throw it out
> in case its not - this doesn't have anything to do with the "reserved
> space for the root user," does it?  When I go to create the filesystem
> for ext3, I have to manually specify not to reserve 5% of the disk space
> per filesystem for the "root user" - this is, I take it, to keep the
> system bootable and the file system accessible in the event that, say, a
> runaway log issue should fill it up.
>
> May have nothing to do with your problem but I figure I'd mention it
> just in case.
>
> --
> Quag7 <coldfront@frostwarning.com>
> http://www.computerrooms.org
> Photographs of the edge of the internet...
>
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>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space

[Nich Steicke]

> Reiserfs does the same thing, 5% saved for root.
>
> On 3/15/06, Quag7 <coldfront@frostwarning.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >
>> >         freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained
>> >         more free
>> >         space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround,
>> >         and found
>> >         that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the
>> >         wrong size,
>> >         detales are as follows:
>>
>> I've never used reiserfs and this may be obvious, but I'll throw it out
>> in case its not - this doesn't have anything to do with the "reserved
>> space for the root user," does it?  When I go to create the filesystem
>> for ext3, I have to manually specify not to reserve 5% of the disk space
>> per filesystem for the "root user" - this is, I take it, to keep the
>> system bootable and the file system accessible in the event that, say, a
>> runaway log issue should fill it up.
>>
>> May have nothing to do with your problem but I figure I'd mention it
>> just in case.

Hey, nah - dosnt seem be a problem.

i did manage to fix the filesystem size by using the command
'resize-reiserfs /dev/hdb1' (was susjested by a friend)

thanks for your replies

Nich Steicke
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