lost space

[carsten lange]

>Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 20:10:56 +0930
>From: squareyes <squareyes at optusnet.com.au>
>Subject: Re : lost space
>To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>Message-ID: <429AEDB8.4010809 at optusnet.com.au>
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>Fdisk shows
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40981118976 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hda1   *           1         755     6064506    b  W95 FAT32  
>/dev/hda2             756        4982    33953377+   5  Extended
>/dev/hda5             756        1509     6056473+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda6            1520        1582      506016   82  Linux swap / 
>Solaris
>/dev/hda7   *        1583        4982    27310468+  83  Linux    (ext2 
>and /boot)
>
>Gparted shows hda1 as boot
>                         hda7 as  boot
>
>Is hda2 the sum of hda1 and hda7  If I delete hda7 partition and grow hda5
>will that work?
>Thanks again in advance,
>Take Care

You have:
1 primary partition (hda1) hosting Win95 or similar.
1 extended partition (hda2) which is divided into 3 partitions (hda5 +
hda6 + hda7)

hda5 should be your root-partition (not sure here), hda6 is swap and
hda7 is the boot-partition of your ubuntu-installation.

Disk usage is hda1 + hda2: 40,017,883 meaning about 40 gb - if the
blocks are measured in bytes. There is a toggle key in fdisk to change
units.

Hope this helps.

/carsten.