Re: removing EISA partition

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Hi Hiisi,
use parted to see the exact layout of your HD

HTH

2009/3/11 Hiisi <very-cool@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 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:!
--
Hiisi.

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