Did you grow/shrink reiserfs on those partitions after you resized them? On 3/14/06, Nich Steicke 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 > --------------------- > http://narthollis.net > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >