Re: removing EISA partition
Hi Hiisi, use parted to see the exact layout of your HD HTH 2009/3/11 Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru Dear fedora-list members! On my girlfriend's laptop (Samsung R40) running Fedora 9 is disk shortage problem. It had 60 Gb hard drive when she brought it a few years ago with Windows XP already installed. She used it some time before last summer I convinced her to switch to Fedora. I formatted disk with standard layout during installation process. As I can see now it has only 51G instead of 60: $ df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 51G31G18G 65% / /dev/sda1 200M27M 163M 14% /boot tmpfs 995M66k 995M 1% /dev/shm gvfs-fuse-daemon 51G31G18G 65% /home/Tarja/.gvfs I heard somewhere if Windows was installed by manufacturer there's system config partition called EISA. I suppose it allocated on those 9G. How can one kill it and union to the existent filesystem? I googled the problem but found only howto in Windows. Thanks in advance. $ uname -a Linux imt.ru 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Tue Feb 24 20:09:23 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- Hiisi. -- Alessandro Brezzi OK. Here's additional information: $ fdisk -l bash: fdisk: command not found (strange thing: many commands are in /sbin folder!) $ /sbin/fdisk -l (nothing) ]# /sbin/parted GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print all Model: ATA HTS541060G9AT00 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 52.4GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 1 32.3kB 206MB 206MB primary ext3 boot 2 206MB 52.4GB 52.2GB primary lvm Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01: 940MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start EndSize File system Flags 1 0.00B 940MB 940MB linux-swap Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00: 51.2GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End SizeFile system Flags 1 0.00B 51.2GB 51.2GB ext3 What's all that mean? Is it really only 52GB? Thanks for Re:! -- Hiisi. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: removing EISA partition
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru wrote: Hi Hiisi, use parted to see the exact layout of your HD HTH 2009/3/11 Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru Dear fedora-list members! On my girlfriend's laptop (Samsung R40) running Fedora 9 is disk shortage problem. It had 60 Gb hard drive when she brought it a few years ago with Windows XP already installed. She used it some time before last summer I convinced her to switch to Fedora. I formatted disk with standard layout during installation process. As I can see now it has only 51G instead of 60: $ df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 51G 31G 18G 65% / /dev/sda1 200M 27M 163M 14% /boot tmpfs 995M 66k 995M 1% /dev/shm gvfs-fuse-daemon 51G 31G 18G 65% /home/Tarja/.gvfs I heard somewhere if Windows was installed by manufacturer there's system config partition called EISA. I suppose it allocated on those 9G. How can one kill it and union to the existent filesystem? I googled the problem but found only howto in Windows. Thanks in advance. $ uname -a Linux imt.ru 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Tue Feb 24 20:09:23 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- Hiisi. -- Alessandro Brezzi OK. Here's additional information: $ fdisk -l bash: fdisk: command not found (strange thing: many commands are in /sbin folder!) $ /sbin/fdisk -l (nothing) ]# /sbin/parted GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print all Model: ATA HTS541060G9AT00 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 52.4GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 206MB 206MB primary ext3 boot 2 206MB 52.4GB 52.2GB primary lvm Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01: 940MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 940MB 940MB linux-swap Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00: 51.2GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 51.2GB 51.2GB ext3 What's all that mean? Is it really only 52GB? Thanks for Re:! That used spaced was reserved for root by mkfs when the partition was created. The mkfs command displays a message to that effect. When you create a partition mkfs says something like (numbers for example only): 66970 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user You can change the reserved block count percentage to 0% for a partition you already created with: # tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdaX Or, create the filesystem with: # mkfs -t ext2 -m 0 /dev/sdaX man mkfs.ext2 -m reserved-blocks-percentage Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from writing to the filesystem. The default percentage is 5%. So, its a good thing to have that reserved space. The disk is big enough, let it be. Read the tune2fs and mkfs man pages or eSearch the keywords to learn more. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: removing EISA partition
Hi Hiisi, use parted to see the exact layout of your HD HTH 2009/3/11 Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru Dear fedora-list members! On my girlfriend's laptop (Samsung R40) running Fedora 9 is disk shortage problem. It had 60 Gb hard drive when she brought it a few years ago with Windows XP already installed. She used it some time before last summer I convinced her to switch to Fedora. I formatted disk with standard layout during installation process. As I can see now it has only 51G instead of 60: $ df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 51G31G18G 65% / /dev/sda1 200M27M 163M 14% /boot tmpfs 995M66k 995M 1% /dev/shm gvfs-fuse-daemon 51G31G18G 65% /home/Tarja/.gvfs I heard somewhere if Windows was installed by manufacturer there's system config partition called EISA. I suppose it allocated on those 9G. How can one kill it and union to the existent filesystem? I googled the problem but found only howto in Windows. Thanks in advance. $ uname -a Linux imt.ru 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Tue Feb 24 20:09:23 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- Hiisi. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- Alessandro Brezzi -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
