Re: [SLUG] Missing Disk space?

[scott]

Thanks for the tip.
I moved the home directory, deleted the partition, and re-added it, with the same FS (ext3).
I now have all the space back, from a 2.9 gig partition, to a 10 gig partition.

Thanks for the tip Ben.

Scott


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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/12/2002 10:38:58 PM:

> the fdisk tends to suggest that you have the write amount of disk
> space, but looking at the df a fair bit is missing, I think its the
> hdb6 partition is there a possibility that the file system does not
> fill the partion. I have NFI ideas about how that might have
> happened. What file system are you using? Im guessing ext2 (some
> file systems have limits) ? Is it possible that at format time an
> incorrect number of blocks was set? What distrobution are you using is it old?
>  
> If you can mobe the stuff on that partion to some where else
> temporily try remaking the file system (with a different FS maybee)
> just to see.
>  
>  
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>  
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> Subject: [SLUG] Missing Disk space?
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> Hi All,
> I seem to be missing 6 gig of disk space.
> This could have been happening all along, but I hadn't noticed as
> its only become an issue since the /home directory is getting full.
>
> I have a 13 gig western digital as a secondary drive (Confirmed by
> hdparm -i /dev/hdb), but when I do a df -h, it shows only two
> filesystems of these sizes:
>
> [root@Laziar2 /root]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb6             2.9G  2.7G  100M  97% /home
> /dev/hdb5             3.9G  2.5G  1.3G  65% /usr
>
> I thought I might have had some unallocated space on the disk, but I
> then went into fdisk, printed out the partition info and it shows:
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1             1      1871  15028776    5  Extended
> /dev/hdb5             1       523   4200934+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdb6           524      1871  10827778+  83  Linux
>
> I thought it might be the bios, but I don't think so, without
> rebooting I can't check, but its an ABIT BH6 motherboard, and should
> detect 13 gig harddrives.
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to where the 6 gig could have gone?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott
>
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> Scott Ragen
> Support Manager/IT Administrator
> Roadtech Systems
> www.roadtechsystems.com.au
> PH: +61 2 9807 3516 FAX: +61 2 9808 5294