size from df -kh vs size from fdisk -l
Jeff Voskamp
javoskam at uwaterloo.ca
Tue Apr 21 14:57:19 UTC 2009
Andrew Parker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:37 AM, jackson byers <byersjab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> # fdisk -l
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36703934464 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4462 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/sda1 * 1 2676 21494938+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda2 2677 3163 3911827+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
>> /dev/sda3 3164 4462 10434217+ 83 Linux
>>
>> sda1 size ~ 21.5 G
>>
>> but using df:
>> # df -kh
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sdb6 7.7G 5.6G 1.8G 77% /
>> tmpfs 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
>> /dev/sda1 190M 5.6M 175M 4% /mnt/sda1
>>
>> sda1 size = 190M
>>
>
> df comes from the file system rather than the partition. is it
> possible that the sda1 partition was resized but not reformatted?
>
> if you can stand to lose the data, can you reformat the file system?
> do you then get the expected size?
>
Or just try "resize2fs /dev/sda1" to resize the filesystem to the size
of the underlying partition.
Jeff
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