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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:37 am Post subject: ubuntu disk size issue..

I just noticed this:

fdisk wrote:
Disk /dev/hdh: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdh1 1 9732 78172258+ 83 Linux

df wrote:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdh1 20999028 13524532 6407784 68% /fshare/driveH

now...

lets look at the important parts here:

Quote:
Disk /dev/hdh: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes

and

Quote:
1K-blocks: 20999028

I can do my math...

20999028 K blocks... = 21503004672 bytes

21503004672 bytes != 80054059008 bytes

not even close!!!

Thats something like 1/4 of the space I'm supposed to have...

(ok, so its 27% instead of 25%, but who's counting)

ok.. problem.. Smile

anyone have any ideas?

here's the advanced partition look from fdisk

Quote:
Disk /dev/hdh: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9732 cylinders

Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 00 1 1 0 254 63 1023 63 156344517 83
2 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
3 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

I'm flumuxed and will end up breaking that 1 big 80gb partition into 4 20's if that will get me the space back.. but...

oh yeah.. its an ext3 filesystem

thank ya vewy much

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject:

Looks to me like hdh1 is already a 20GB partition. Check out what hdh looks like in GParted (or something similar). It might show that you have 75% of your drive unpartitioned.

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject:

hummer010 wrote:
Looks to me like hdh1 is already a 20GB partition. Check out what hdh looks like in GParted (or something similar). It might show that you have 75% of your drive unpartitioned.

I don't have X installed

gparted is a kde or gnome app, correct?!?!

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject:

parted wrote:
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hdh: 0kB - 80GB
Disk label type: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32kB 80GB 80GB primary ext3

broken down for easy reading

parted wrote:
(parted) print
Disk Geometry for /dev/hdh: 0kb - 80GB
Disk label type: msdos
Number: 1
Start: 32kb
End: 80 GB
Type: Primary
File System: ext3
Flags:

here's an interesting note:

parted wrote:
(parted) check 1
Warning: Partition 1 is 80GB, but the file system is 22GB.

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject:

fathertyme wrote:
hummer010 wrote:
Looks to me like hdh1 is already a 20GB partition. Check out what hdh looks like in GParted (or something similar). It might show that you have 75% of your drive unpartitioned.

I don't have X installed

gparted is a kde or gnome app, correct?!?!

Then use parted instead.

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:55 am Post subject:

fathertyme wrote:
(parted) check 1
Warning: Partition 1 is 80GB, but the file system is 22GB.

Wierd. Never seen anything like that before.

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject:

ahh

fixed it

problem was that the disk originally was divided into 20 gb segments
I repartitioned it into one large partition

I ended up needing to do a mkfs and reformat the disk

and that solved the issue