[ale] who is eating my drive

[Lightner, Jeff]

It is showing you made /dev/sda2 your Extended partition of 8 GB then
used up all 8 GB in the sub-partition of the Extended partition as a
SWAP device (/dev/sda5).   (By the way you don't typically use Extended
partition until you run out of primaries - you could have made /dev/sda2
itself the swap device.

 

Type "swapon -s" and you should see this device.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Narahari 'n' Savitha
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 1:29 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] who is eating my drive

 

Thanks for all your time.

Here is the output of the fdisk -l command

devusr at devusr-virtual-machine:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 22.5 GB, 22548578304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2741 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00075d29

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1698    13630464   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1698        2742     8386561    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            1698        2742     8386560   82  Linux swap /
Solaris



So what should I be looking here for ?

-Narahari
 
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