How can I recover missing hard drive space?

jcs · 2008-11-19 05:18:11

Using a livecd and gparted I tried to shrink sda5 and grow sda7 by about 25G. It shrunk my ubuntu partition but I'm not seeing the transferred free space on my Arch partition. There was a warning during the process: 'please run e2fsck2' although everything seems to have finished. If I run gparted it shows my Arch parition to be about 50G(with approx. 38G used) but Arch only shows my drive to be 25G.

sda1 is primary
5,6(swap), and 7 are logical

[joe@jdesk ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7              25G   13G   11G  55% /
none                  502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5              24G   15G  8.0G  65% /mnt/ubuntu
/dev/sda1             110G   80G   31G  72% /mnt/windows
[joe@jdesk ~]$

I intend to wipe the logical partition and reinstall Arch with primary root/swap partitions but I would like to have the space as it may be a month or two before I get around to it. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Edit: Also feel free to let me know which commands could provide useful info. I'm not sure what might be helpful.

Last edited by jcs (2008-11-19 05:35:34)

R00KIE · 2008-11-20 10:17:47

Hmmmm .... I've had that problem too before, I was resizing and moving some partitions and gparted messed it up completely. To help damage the rest I've deleted one logical partition from windows ..... complete mess. I could undo the mess windows and gparted did using testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
If you have a spare drive with enough space make an image of the whole disk just in case testdisk makes it worse.

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#1 2008-11-19 05:18:11

How can I recover missing hard drive space?

#2 2008-11-20 10:17:47

Re: How can I recover missing hard drive space?

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