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

["Nich Steicke" <nano-tech@netspace.net.au>]

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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