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by **Paul Sherw** » Thu, 08 Nov 2001 20:44:36

On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 11:25:08 GMT, Matthew Planchant

>I have Re-partioned my HD ~6 times. This as happened as I have tried out
>various linux distros. The windows partion has remained the same ~19.9Gb
>but the amount of space available to me on my linux partion seems to have
>got smaller. The sum of all my partions no longer adds up to the size of my
>HD (30Gb). I seem to have lost ~1Gb.

>Has the number of times I have re-partioned my HD caused me to loose some
>of my HD or was I more likely to have been one occasion where I made a
>mistake while partioning?

>Are there any other likely causes of this?

>Is there any way I can get this space back?

>My HD is as follows :

What does fdisk or cfdisk say about the partition table layout?

The amount of mounted usable space will vary depending on how the
filesystems are initialized, since the filesystem overhead will vary.

Best regards, Paul

Paul Sherwin Consulting 22 Monmouth Road, Oxford OX1 4TD, UK
Phone +44 (0)1865 721438 http://www.psherwin.strayduck.com

by **Matthew Planchan** » Sat, 10 Nov 2001 04:53:39

> What does fdisk or cfdisk say about the partition table layout?

> The amount of mounted usable space will vary depending on how the
> filesystems are initialized, since the filesystem overhead will vary.

Your going to have to talk me through this one I haven't used fdisk. I'm
not worried about losing anything on my Linux partition as i'm going to do
a reinstall soon anyway. So if I could recover the lost space and end up
with a blank Linux partition then that would be fine.

This is the output from fdisk:

[matt]# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3736.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2549 20474811 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 2550 3736 9534577+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 2550 3368 6578586 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 3369 3466 787153+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 3467 3736 2168743+ 83 Linux

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Matt.

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