removing EISA partition

Hiisi very-cool at rambler.ru
Thu Mar 12 06:23:34 UTC 2009


> Hi Hiisi,
> use parted to see the exact layout of your HD
>
> HTH
>
> 2009/3/11 Hiisi <very-cool at rambler.ru>
> > Dear fedora-list members!
> > On my girlfriend's laptop (Samsung R40) running Fedora 9 is disk
> shortage
> > problem. It had 60 Gb hard drive when she brought it a few years ago
> with
> > Windows XP already installed. She used it some time before last 
summer
> I
> > convinced her to switch to Fedora. I formatted disk with standard
> layout
> > during installation process. As I can see now it has only 51G 
instead
> of 60:
> > $ df -H
> > Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> >                                  51G    31G    18G  65% /
> > /dev/sda1              200M    27M   163M  14% /boot
> > tmpfs                      995M    66k   995M   1% /dev/shm
> > gvfs-fuse-daemon 51G    31G    18G  65% /home/Tarja/.gvfs
> > I heard somewhere if Windows was installed by manufacturer there's
> system
> > config partition called "EISA". I suppose it allocated on those 9G.
> How can
> > one kill it and union to the existent filesystem? I googled the
> problem but
> > found only howto in Windows.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux imt.ru 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Tue Feb 24 20:09:23 
EST
> > 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > --
> > Hiisi.
> --
> Alessandro Brezzi

OK. Here's additional information:
$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
(strange thing: many commands are in /sbin folder!)
$ /sbin/fdisk -l
(nothing)
]# /sbin/parted
GNU Parted 1.8.8
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print all
Model: ATA HTS541060G9AT00 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 52.4GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  206MB   206MB   primary  ext3         boot
 2      206MB   52.4GB  52.2GB  primary               lvm

Model: Linux device-mapper (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01: 940MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number  Start  End    Size   File system  Flags
 1      0.00B  940MB  940MB  linux-swap

Model: Linux device-mapper (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00: 51.2GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number  Start  End     Size    File system  Flags
 1      0.00B  51.2GB  51.2GB  ext3

What's all that mean? Is it really only 52GB?
Thanks for Re:!
--
Hiisi.




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