Partition size mismatch

[Jason Bleazard]

I'm trying to track down why my /var partition is only mounting as half the size as reported by fdisk or parted. I'd appreciate any suggestions or other information.

df reports this (approx 2G):
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 1968588 833836 1034752 45% /var

parted reports this (approx 4G):
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
7 1231.576 5137.976 logical ext2 cfdisk also reports the partition as being 4G in size.

This partition was previously ext3 before today. I converted it back to ext2 using tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda7.

I thought it was a 2G partition until I fired up Partition Magic to increase it, and noticed that it was already 4G reported by Partition Magic. That's when I booted back to Linux and discovered that parted and cfdisk agree with Partition Magic. It's just the mounted size that doesn't agree.

I'd prefer not to mess around with the size of it if I can first figure out why it's being mounted a different size than what the partition table supposedly says.

Thanks in advance,
Jason


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