On 28/01/19 9:36 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> Usually, all of a partition is used. If the partition contains a >>> filesystem, swap area, RAID member or LVM physical volume, these data >>> structures use all the partition space. >> >> Not necessarily - eg if you've extended the partition and not the >> filesystem, it doesn't. > > Of course there are exceptions. This is why I wrote "usually". > But this space is not accounted as available/free in the partition > table, nor is it accounted as used/unused in the filesystem. Gparted > would not display it. Unless it is a transient state, it is just wasted > space.
I made the point because it might be useful, in this case or others, to detect such wasted space (eg by comparing the partition table with the filesystem metadata) Richard
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