[SOLVED] - incongruent partition size

toad · 2009-01-01 21:04:29

I'm stumped.

[toad@myhost ~]$df -h|grep a7
/dev/sda7 2.0G 1.9G 34M 99% /.personalhda

So df tells me that sda7 is 2GB small.

parted confirms this but also tells a different story:

Warning: Partition 7 is 4211MB, but the file system is 2114MB.

And on checking gparted I am told that it is 3.92GB big, of which 3.79GB are used.

I don't know, you know, don't you know! Any ideas out there how I can get them all to agree?

Last edited by toad (2009-01-03 19:10:53)

deej · 2009-01-02 10:27:32

I'd download a bootable partitioning utility, gparted do one

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

and see what that tells you. All very strange...

P.S.
Is that the redoubtable CatWeasel I see as your avatar ?
Brings back many memories...

Deej

toad · 2009-01-02 13:11:44

gparted spits out the same as parted (it being the programme gparted is a front end for) - 4GB

It all happened after shrinking, moving and generally juggling partitions about with gparted which ended with an error, after which the whole disk refused to be recognised. So I deleted the partition in question (sda7) using fdisk and put it in again. Since then I can access data and all the rest but this rather strange phenomenon occurs...

And yes, Catweazle!!! That is how I often feel in front of the box

Last edited by toad (2009-01-03 16:58:13)

toad · 2009-01-03 19:10:19

SOLVED

I think the partition was 4GB big while the actual file system on it was only 2GB.

I ran a check using gparted and now I get

[toad@myhost ~]$sudo df -h|grep a7
/dev/sda7 3.9G 1.9G 1.9G 50% /.personalhda

Hurray! I can start backing up my personal stuff again without having to worry about size

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#1 2009-01-01 21:04:29

[SOLVED] - incongruent partition size

#2 2009-01-02 10:27:32

Re: [SOLVED] - incongruent partition size

#3 2009-01-02 13:11:44

Re: [SOLVED] - incongruent partition size

#4 2009-01-03 19:10:19

Re: [SOLVED] - incongruent partition size

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