where is my remaining space ????

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Tue Feb 23 07:44:33 UTC 2010


On 02/23/2010 08:18 AM, Jatin K wrote:
> Dear list
>
> I've installed 320GB hdd but  Disk Usage Analyzer shows the following
>
> Total filesystem capacity 288.6GB ( used 53.1 GB available 235.4 GB )
>
>                     320.00 GB
>
> - (minus)    288.60 GB
> ---------------------------------------
>                       31.40 GB      ( what about this missing space ...
> where is it ? )
>
>
> how do I utilize missing space of 31.40 GB ...where it has gone ??????
>
>
> This is the output of fdisk -l
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 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       14593   117013441   8e  Linux LVM
> /dev/sda3           14594       38913   195350400   83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/dm-0: 114.5 GB, 114533859328 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13924 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x2917754c
>
>        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/dm-0p1               1       13924   111844498+  83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/dm-1: 5284 MB, 5284823040 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 642 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x42cd0139
>
>        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/dm-1p1               1         642     5156833+  83  Linux
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Can anyone explain me ...whats going wrong with me ???
>
> Regards
>

When making a fs, there is a parameter "-m" describing 
reserved-blocks-percentage with a default value of 5%. Can that be your 
problem?

Regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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