| Adam Zion on 7 Dec 2011 11:40:21 -0800 |
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| [PLUG] Lost gigabytes? |
I recently had to rebuild my notebook computer from jump street. In doing so, I first set up a Windows 7 installation, w/unpartitioned space available. I then installed Fedora on the unpartitioned space. So far so good, right? Not quite. While gparted and Gnome's Disk Utility readily acknowledge that the partition scheme is like this: System reserved partition, 105 MB, NTFS Windows drive, 174 GB, NTFS Linux boot partition, 524 MB, ext4 145 GB physical volume shared w/145 GB extended volume, linux LVM/Extended a check of the size of / reveals only 45 GB drive space- I've lost 100 GB. Methinks it has something to do w/the odd 145GB/145GB partition that's listed last. But is there any way I could get rid of that w/o restarting everything from scratch yet again? GRUB's overwritten the Windows boot manager, which makes it much more complicated than simply deleting the odd partitions- doing that will brick the system. Thoughts? -Z -- Adam+Zion, MCSE+I, Registered Linux User #471910 ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug