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

["Andrew Frink" <andrew.frink@gmail.com>]

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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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