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
>
>
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