Apparently lost 10GB hard disk space after using GParted.

[Christoph Bier]

Bob St. John schrieb am 03.02.2010 21:05:

> Folks,
> 
> I've got an Acer Aspire 5515 laptop that has a 160GB hard disk. This
> laptop is a dual-boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10. I recently
> used GParted to resize the partitions and apparently lost 10GB of hard
> disk space in the process.
> 
> Original configuration (approximate):
> 	+ 10GB "Windows Recovery" partition
> 	+ 130GB Windows 7 NTFS partition
> 	+ 19GB Ubuntu 9.10 ext4 partition
> 	+ 1GB swap partition

[...]

> Current configuration as shown by GParted:
> 	+ /dev/sda1 is 100GB for Windows 7 NTFS
> 	+ /dev/sda2 is 30GB FAT32
> 	+ /dev/sda3 is 20GB extended, and appears to contain;
> 		- /dev/sda5 is 19GB Ubuntu 9.10 ext4
> 		- /dev/sda6 is 1GB swap partition
> 
> Anyone have any idea what might have happened to the "lost" 10GB and how
> I might get it back?
> 
> Additionally, the Palimpsest Disk Utility shows something
> different . . . 160GB total capacity arranged as follows:
> 	+ 105GB NTFS
> 	+ 34GB FAT32
> 	+ 21GB extended (Ubuntu 9.10 plus swap)

Does the following article help you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Consumer_confusion

Best
Christoph
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