I got a reply to this and it looks like the hdb6 partion did not get created correctly
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Saenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 5:10 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Missing Disk space? > Ok have you tried > > du -h --max-depth=2 /home > > once you have done that you will find out who the culprit is. > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > Scott Ragen > > Support Manager/IT Administrator > > Roadtech Systems > > www.roadtechsystems.com.au > > PH: +61 2 9807 3516 FAX: +61 2 9808 5294 > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
