ext3 partition size
George Butler
shadowbu at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 15:27:41 UTC 2010
Andreas.... thanks for the suggestion, I did a *resize2fs -d -p
/dev/sdb8* on the partition and is now showing the size and disk usage
correctly.
Thanks for your advise.
george
On 12/31/2009 03:39 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2009-12-28, at 23:06, George Butler wrote:
>> I am running fedora 11 with kernel 2.6.30.9-102.fc11.x86_64 #1
>> SMP Fri Dec 4 00:18:53 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. I am
>> noticing a partition on my drive is reporting incorrect size with
>> "df", the partition is ext3 size 204GB with about 79GB actual usage,
>> the "df" result show the partition size to be 111GB, 93GB is missing.
>> Please advice on what can be done to see why the system is reporting
>> incorrect partition size.
>>
>> mount: /dev/sdb8 on /srv/multimedia type ext3 (rw,relatime)
>>
>> $ df -hT
>> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sdb2 ext3 30G 1.1G 28G 4% /
>> /dev/sdb7 ext3 20G 1.3G 18G 7% /var
>> /dev/sdb6 ext3 30G 12G 17G 43% /usr
>> /dev/sdb5 ext3 40G 25G 13G 67% /home
>> /dev/sdb1 ext3 107M 52M 50M 52% /boot
>> /dev/sdb8 ext3 111G 79G 27G 76% /srv/multimedia
>> tmpfs tmpfs 2.9G 35M 2.9G 2% /dev/shm
>>
>> Parted info:
>>
>> (parted) select /dev/sdb
>> Using /dev/sdb
>> (parted) print
>> Model: ATA ST3500630AS (scsi)
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
>> Partition Table: msdos
>>
>> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
>> 1 32.3kB 115MB 115MB primary ext3 boot
>> 2 115MB 32.3GB 32.2GB primary ext3
>> 3 32.3GB 35.5GB 3224MB primary linux-swap
>> 4 35.5GB 500GB 465GB extended
>> 5 35.5GB 78.5GB 43.0GB logical ext3
>> 6 78.5GB 111GB 32.2GB logical ext3
>> 7 111GB 132GB 21.5GB logical ext3
>> 8 132GB 352GB 220GB logical ext3
>> 9 352GB 492GB 140GB logical ext3
>
> It definitely looks strange. Did you resize this partition after it
> was created? In any case, running "resize2fs /dev/sdb8" should
> enlarge the
> filesystem to fill the partition.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/attachments/20100113/b28bc88a/attachment.htm>
More information about the Ext3-users
mailing list