Please keep all correspondence on-list. This makes sure that everyone gets the benefit of both the question and the answers and it records the dialogue for the archives, so the whole community grows. One-on-one help is called consulting or tech support, and I charge money for those!
Also, keep replies BELOW the original text, so the whole conversation follows a logical top-to-bottom order. Replying above the original text leaves the conversation in reverse, in effect putting the answer before the question. More importantly, it annoys the hell out of a lot of people on the list since it makes conversations very difficult to follow, and you will get more help if you follow the local customs.
Having said that, your missing gigabytes are quite easy to find. Here is the output of "fdisk -l" and "df -m" you provided:
At 22:48 2/21/2004, you wrote:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 7 56196 83 Linux /dev/hda2 8 4865 39021885 5 Extended /dev/hda5 8 3520 28218141 83 Linux /dev/hda6 3521 3627 859446 82 Linux swap
---------------------------------------------------------------- # df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 27124 1032 24714 5% / /dev/hda1 53 4 46 7% /boot --------------------------------------------------------------------
You can see that the disk has 4865 cylinders, and that /boot is using the first 7 cylinders as /dev/hda1. There is an extended partition (/dev/hda2) covering the rest of the disk, and your real Linux partitions (the / partition and the swap partition) are inside that. But note that your root partition /dev/hda5 is only 27GB in size, using cylinders 8-3520. Your swap partition then uses cylinders 3521-3627 (roughly 800MB swap). The rest of your disk, cylinders 3628-4865, is not assigned to any partition.
I suggest you use parted (included in Red Hat Linux) to move the /dev/hda6 swap partition to the end of the disk, then grow /dev/hda5 to use all the available space. You should be able to recover it all quite easily.
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