Intrepid missing total space on Raid array

[crows4hire]

I have a new machine running a Gigabyte M61PME-S2 with two 750 Gb hard drives running fakeRaid, mirrored. I have set the partitions simply as 100 Gb for root, 10 Gb for swap and the remainder as home. When the install is complete, I wind up missing about 50 Gb of total space between the partitions.

df returns the following:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/nvidia_cffciiih1
96124904 2270096 88971856 3% /
tmpfs 1783408 0 1783408 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1783408 100 1783308 1% /var/run
varlock 1783408 0 1783408 0% /var/lock
udev 1783408 2776 1780632 1% /dev
tmpfs 1783408 188 1783220 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1783408 2000 1781408 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
/dev/mapper/nvidia_cffciiih6
1202762284 224924 1141440564 1% /home

In addition, my swap file does not load. Finally, I have 4 Gb of ram installed and System Manager only shows 3.4 Gb.

I have been re-installing Intrepid in every configuration I can think of for days now and I am at my wits end. HELP!!! ... please!

[lemming465]

Um, I'm not sure you are actually missing any space. More likely you are a victim of the rather confused ways disk space gets measured. The disk drive vendors sell it units of 10^9 bytes (decimal gigabytes). Linux tends to show multiples of binary 2^10 = 1024 = 1 kibibyte. 1500000 base 10 kilobytes is roughly 1464883 base 2 kibibytes. It will look even worse if you use df -m and get it measuring in mebibytes (2^20) or gibibytes (2^30).

Swap partitions aren't mounted as filesystems, and df won't show them. Try cat /proc/swaps to see what is actually being used. You can also find stuff about swap partitions being activated in the output of dmesg, which is archived in /var/log/messages.