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rune0077

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Registered: 2009-04-11

Posts: 135

Var partition showing incorrect size

So I installed a new system on a new rig last night. Today, I noticed that the /var partition is showing a much smaller size, than what it actually is.

"df -h /var" shows:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3       3,0G  266M  2,6G  10% /var

But "fdisk -l /dev/sda3" as root gives me:

Disk /dev/sda3: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders, total 41943040 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

The 21 gb shown by fdisk is the correct size of the partition, so why on earth will arch only see 3 of those when mounting it as /var?

The relevant fstab entry looks proper to me:

UUID=2a2bb9dd-054c-4a04-810b-9bae86c8ca8f /var ext4 defaults 0 1

And to double check that uuid is correct and pointing to /dev/sda3, I run "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid" and get:

...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May  1 11:41 2a2bb9dd-054c-4a04-810b-9bae86c8ca8f -> ../../sda3
...

Any clue to what is happening here? Help would be much appreciated.

seveg

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From: Bratislava, Slovakia

Registered: 2012-04-17

Posts: 33

Re: Var partition showing incorrect size

Maybe the files system was not created properly. Try backup your files and reformat or resize with resize2fs.

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