On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:49 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
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@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
According to fdisk, you only have 250GB drive.
BIOS issue?
I'll be interesting to look at the kernel log.
Could you post the contents of /var/log/dmesg?
- Gilboa