Re: removing EISA partition
Hi Hiisi, use parted to see the exact layout of your HD HTH 2009/3/11 Hiisi > 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 > 51G31G18G 65% / > /dev/sda1 200M27M 163M 14% /boot > tmpfs 995M66k 995M 1% /dev/shm > gvfs-fuse-daemon 51G31G18G 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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- Alessandro Brezzi -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: removing EISA partition
Hi Hiisi, use parted to see the exact layout of your HD HTH 2009/3/11 Hiisi > 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 > 51G31G18G 65% / > /dev/sda1 200M27M 163M 14% /boot > tmpfs 995M66k 995M 1% /dev/shm > gvfs-fuse-daemon 51G31G18G 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 SizeType 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 EndSize 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 SizeFile system Flags 1 0.00B 51.2GB 51.2GB ext3 What's all that mean? Is it really only 52GB? Thanks for Re:! -- Hiisi. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: removing EISA partition
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Hiisi wrote: >> Hi Hiisi, >> use parted to see the exact layout of your HD >> >> HTH >> >> 2009/3/11 Hiisi >> > 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:! That used spaced was reserved for root by mkfs when the partition was created. The mkfs command displays a message to that effect. When you create a partition mkfs says something like (numbers for example only): "66970 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user" You can change the reserved block count percentage to 0% for a partition you already created with: # tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdaX Or, create the filesystem with: # mkfs -t ext2 -m 0 /dev/sdaX man mkfs.ext2 -m reserved-blocks-percentage Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from writing to the filesystem. The default percentage is 5%. So, its a good thing to have that reserved space. The disk is big enough, let it be. Read the tune2fs and mkfs man pages or eSearch the keywords to learn more. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: removing EISA partition (SOLVED
That used spaced was reserved for root by mkfs when the partition was created. The mkfs command displays a message to that effect. When you create a partition mkfs says something like (numbers for example only): "66970 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user" You can change the reserved block count percentage to 0% for a partition you already created with: # tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdaX Or, create the filesystem with: # mkfs -t ext2 -m 0 /dev/sdaX man mkfs.ext2 -m reserved-blocks-percentage Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from writing to the filesystem. The default percentage is 5%. So, its a good thing to have that reserved space. The disk is big enough, let it be. Read the tune2fs and mkfs man pages or eSearch the keywords to learn more. ~af OK. I see. I'll do nothing with it. Actually a friend of mine has a bigger hard drive he doesn't need. It's 160 GB HDD. I'm going to install F10 on it as soon as I have it. Anyway, thanks for your help. Appreciate that. -- Hiisi. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
