[Solved] Strange free space after adding 2nd hard drive

Hello,
Im pretty new to linux but am learning pretty fast, fast enough that I needed to install a second hard drive.
Every thing went well, got the new drive in and mounted to /home and moved all my old /home to the new drive. After all that I went to delete the old /home on hda resize the / partition to use the rest of the drive.
I used gParted 0.5.0 and booted from their live CD and did the deed. BUT now drive hda (40GB drive) shows that / is taking 36.92GB, when it was originally using about 4GB on the original 7GB / partition.
I ran the disk usage tool and..well
1) It shoes that I'm using 4GB of 40GB
2) Only shows that I have 44GB available when I have 2 40GB Drives installed.
can someone tell me whats going on here?
to recap
Originally the 1 drive was laid out as
/boot - 100MB
swap - 260MB
/       - ~7GB
/home - remainder of drive
then I (wanted to) changed it to
[sda]
/boot - 100MB
SWAP - 260MB
/        - Remainder of drive
[sdb]
/home - 40GB
Thank you for any help.
I have attached the screen shots
Last edited by =OTS=G-Man (2009-12-10 06:02:03)

ill try the fsck right now
heres the output you requested
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7.3G 3.9G 3.0G 57% /
none 505M 120K 505M 1% /dev
none 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 99M 12M 83M 12% /boot
/dev/sdb1 38G 93M 38G 1% /home
total 46G 4.0G 42G 9%
thats interesting.
/dev/sda3 is showing its old values almost like something in the partition tables didn't get updated?
Last edited by =OTS=G-Man (2009-12-09 06:19:55)

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