<br><br>> sda1 size = 190M<br>><br>> how possible?<br>> advice, help on further diagnosing this?<br>> Jack<br><br>After using fdisk or parted, one must do "partprobe" at the CLI to record<br>the changes. Both the OS and the Kernel need to know the changes.<br>
Since your boot partition is involved, you may need a LiveCD for this.<br>Do "man partprobe" for more info.<br><br>HTH,<br>~af<br><br>-----------------------<br><br>but "I" didnt "consciously" use fdisk or parted on sda.<br>
If it happened bc of my clutzy use of the liveinstall cd<br>then maybe I did, without knowing it.<br><br>Actually my present boot partition is sdb6, /boot a dir inside,<br>so present /boot not involved with my installcd mistakes on sda1.<br>
I have systemrescue cd so i probably can use that.<br><br>I have never heard of partprobe<br>is it really necessary if reboot after using fdisk,parted,gparted<br>if reboot after?<br><br>I am unclear re man page<br> partprobe - inform the OS of partition table changes<br>
<br> partprobe [-d] [-s] [devices...]<br> <br> partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of parti-<br> tion table changes, by requesting that the operating system re-read the<br> partition table.<br>
<br>OPTIONS <br> -d Don’t update the kernel.<br> -s Show a summary of devices and their partitions.<br> <br>what exactly does -d do? <br>-s do nothing except show summary ?<br><br>are you saying to run it <br>
as partprobe /dev/sda1<br>or partprobe /dev/sda ?<br><br>will this operation shrink the size seen by fdisk to what is seen by df? <br>or what?<br>will it affect <br>sda2 swap<br>sda3 another linux partition<br>?<br><br>
parted shows same thing, but additional "incompatible feature"<br>root@bootp ~]# parted /dev/sda<br>Using /dev/sda<br>(parted) unit mb print <br>Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0MB - 36704MB<br>
Disk label type: msdos<br>Number Start End Size Type File system Flags<br>1 0MB 22011MB 22011MB primary ext3 boot<br>2 22011MB 26017MB 4006MB primary linux-swap <br>3 26017MB 36701MB 10685MB primary ext3 <br>
(parted) check 1 <br>Warning: Partition 1 is 22011MB, but the file system is 206MB. <br>Ignore/Cancel? ignore <br>
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. <br> <br>does this last tell us anything useful?<br>perhaps better to just reformat sda1?<br><br>thanks for response<br>Jack<br>