please help, problem with partitions

neojin · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 3

Hello everyone,

First timer here, trying to make the switch.

A few days ago I installed Slackware 9.1 and after hearing about Gentoo, I decided to switch. I have a hp zd7000 series laptop and from what I've read in previous threads, the two work quite well together.

So anyway, to make a long story short, I dual booted XP and Slackware, with XP having 40 gigs and Slackware having 20 gigs. Within the 20 gigs I had 4 partitions, /, swap, /home, and /usr (2 gigs, 1 gig, 8.5 gigs, 8.5 gigs respectively)

During the gentoo installation (did it from scratch), I kept the partitions the same, which are as follows:

fdisk printout:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1276 7296 48363682+ f W96 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 5100 5585 3900375 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 5586 5709 996030 82 Linux Swap
/dev/hda5 1276 5099 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 5710 6560 6835626 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 6561 7296 5911888+ 83 Linux

The idea was to mirror my previous installation and to keep the four partitions /, swap, /home and /usr intact. I thought I did everything right until I loaded up gnome with gDesklets. The hard disk displays show that my partition is as follows:

/ 476.52M
/home 834.50M
/usr 721.64M

Those numbers do not look right at all. As said previously, I thought I set my "/" partition to be 2 gigs, "/home" to be 8.5 gigs and "/usr" to be 8.5 gigs.

I checked my fstab (here is a copy):

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 1
/dev/hda6 /home reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hda7 /usr reiserfs noatime 0 1

So here I am now, wondering what happened.

1. What happened to my previous partitions? Did I not set those up correctly or did they just get lost?
2. Where is gentoo getting the numbers 476.52M, 834.50, and 721.64M from? I dont recall ever setting up those partitions?
3. Is there a way to make things the way I wanted them to be without having to do a complete reinstall?

Any direction in the right path is greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much

Maedhros · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject:

What is the output of the df command? It will show the used, free and total space on each partition, so you can check against what it ought to be!
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:17 pm Post subject:

neojin,

Are you sure its not just showing free space?
Try

neojin · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 3

whoah thanks guys! I guess I was wrong about my initial numbers, but things are looking a LOT better:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted On
/dev/hda3 3.8G 202M 3.6G 6% /
/dev/hda6 6.6G 34M 6.5G 1% /home
/dev/hda7 5.7G 34M 3.6G 38% /usr
none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm

Ok so things are looking a lot better. whew! But.. I woner why gDesklets tells me those other numbers??

Thanks so much guys,
neojin

Anarcho · Advocate Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 2970 Location: Germany

I have the same problem, the gdesklet doesn't show the correct size....

hielvc · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject:

Something is not adding up right. neojin you did a full install with X or xorg gnome and you only used 202+34+34=270MEGS

Sorry but no way Jose. I have a /gentoo dir that has a 2.6.5 kernel and a uncompressed stage3 tarball and the 58Meg stage3-athlon-xp-2004.1.tar.bz2

neojin · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 3

Yeah... the gdesklets are not showing the correct size.

Whoops hielvc, you caught me there... I copied 34M twice

/usr is using 2.2 gigs... that sound better? hehe

In any case, its good to know I didnt screw up. damn you gdesklets!

neojin

hielvc · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject:

Shoot I was gona buy dem der HDs then sell em and retire shucks