Anaconda loses ~100 GByte of disk when installing Fedora 12, was "Part of hard disk disappeared..."

[M. Fioretti]

On Wed, November 25, 2009 8:47 am, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:39 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
>> Monday I installed Fedora 12 x86_64 on that disk, accepting all the
>> defaults. Installation went OK, but I ended up with a disk that (see
>> command outputs below) has logical volumes containing swap, /boot on
>> /dev/sda1, / on /dev/sda2, for a total space, if I understand correctly,
>> of only 250 GB.
>>
>> What happened and why? Where are those missing ~100 GBytes, and how do I
>> recover them without reinstalling from scratch?
>
>
> Please paste also the output of
>  # fdisk -l /dev/sda


Here it is, thanks:

[root at polaris ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000acea3

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          26      204800   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              26       30401   243991201   8e  Linux LVM